Politically Incorrect?

Politically Incorrect?

By Lee Habeeb | The kind of TV show millions of Americans have been praying for… In one great episode, third son Jase gets a fine from the homeowners’ association in his fancy suburban subdivision for burning leaves and keeping chickens in his yard. Upset that...
Be Employable; Study Philosophy

Be Employable; Study Philosophy

By Shannon Rupp | The discipline teaches you how to think clearly, a gift that can be applied to just about any line of work. It must be summer. In anticipation of fall course schedules, several people have asked what I think someone who wants to be a journalist...
Hooking Up in Shakespeare’s World

Hooking Up in Shakespeare’s World

By Gina Dalfonzo | The Atlantic | Drunken One-Night Stands Don’t Fit in Shakespeare’s World, Yet Joss Whedon put one in his new adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. Here’s why it doesn’t work. In Joss Whedon’s otherwise delightful new...
Mitch Daniels’s Gift to Academic Freedom

Mitch Daniels’s Gift to Academic Freedom

By Benno Schmidt | His skepticism about the merits of a sacrosanct liberal history textbook has sparked an overdue debate. Most Americans would agree that academic freedom is a sacred right of the academy and crucial to the American experiment in democracy. But what...
Student Drought Hits Smaller Universities

Student Drought Hits Smaller Universities

By Cameron McWhirter and Douglas Belkin | Loyola University New Orleans faces a $9.5 million budget gap caused by 25% fewer freshmen this fall than it had expected. As Loyola University New Orleans gears up for fall classes next month, the 101-year-old Jesuit...