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...
“Good Thing I’m Not a History Major”

“Good Thing I’m Not a History Major”

By  Michael Robert Hepner | Until higher education throws out the text books and replaces them with primary sources, and professors begin talking with their students instead of to their students, our graduates will remain content to gain no other knowledge than what...