Should the race of a minority student who is applying to a college or university give him or her an advantage over other applicants? This is the question that a group of college-bound students and their parents are asking the…
For those following the academic decline at U.S. universities, the decision by New York University to fire Maitland Jones Jr., an 84-year-old organic chemistry professor, comes as no surprise. Jones, who wrote the textbook on organic chemistry, retained a strict…
Much has been written about the intellectual failings of America’s institutions of higher learning, including their ignorance — or outright suppression — of the achievements of Western civilization, to which the modern university owes its existence. Far less, however, has…
On Aug. 12, the Wall Street Journal reported on “quiet quitting,” an approach to work brought to the forefront of public attention after the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps counterintuitively, quiet quitting doesn’t refer to employees’ resigning from their jobs but to…
In the early 2000s, when I was a bi-vocational pastor for an Evanston church on Chicago’s North Shore, my wife and I had something of a Sunday afternoon ritual — a three-mile walk down Sheridan Road to Carmen’s Pizza in…
The inevitable happened last week in the world of college football. No, the big boys of the college game have not broken free of NCAA shackles to do their own highly profitable, self-governing thing. Not yet, anyway. The present inevitability…
Glenn Youngkin won the governorship of Virginia largely on a platform of anti-wokeness. He campaigned against the critical race theory propaganda that was spreading through Virginia’s public schools. As governor, he has maintained that stance for the most part. He…
“Today is a win,” triumphed Sen. Elizabeth Warren over the Biden plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan obligations, “and it paves the way for even more victories to come.” For the likes of Warren, Biden’s…
