Societies advance through the creation, expression, and evaluation of alternative ideas. Therefore, for almost a millennium, we have had universities where ideas and discoveries are born and different perspectives are debated in “marketplaces of ideas” or “learning communities.” Yet there…

Lamenting the astonishing success of the activist Left’s century-long Gramscian march through America’s major institutions is, at this juncture, old hat. Still, there have been a few recent powerful examples, coming in quick succession, illustrating the extent to which leading…

When one visits Americans and when one studies their laws, one sees that the authority they have given to lawyers and the influence that they have allowed them to have in the government form the most powerful barrier today against…

Watch the video that went viral of a March 9 exchange between a Stanford administrator and a conservative federal judge who had been invited to speak before the Stanford Federalist Society — only to be heckled and drowned out by…

King’s College, a tiny Christian college in the heart of New York City, is facing a financial crisis that threatens its very existence. School officials are begging donors to help them meet the college’s “immediate financial needs,” including building and…

Earlier this month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won yet another small victory in his quest to reform education in the Sunshine State. The leader who put parental rights at the center of his policy agenda and said, “Florida is where…

Despite some welcome pushback from Elon Musk at Twitter, cancel culture continues to be all the rage. There are many ways of canceling someone apart from banning them on Twitter and all of them and some have been tried on…

During the past few decades, so-called “identity studies” programs — such as women’s studies and black studies — have proliferated in American colleges, with extraordinarily deleterious consequences.  Why deleterious? Because, as I discuss at length in my book The Victims’…

With an endowment of roughly $13.3 billion, the University of Notre Dame has cash to burn. Its latest expenditure? A fleet of little robots that deliver food to students across campus. Welcome to the future.  Prior to this latest development…