The University of California, Berkeley, has come under a barrage of criticism after a class offered extra credit for students to participate in a walkout against Israel’s “settler-colonial occupation of Gaza.” The class, called “Asian American Communities and Race Relations”…
I told it to my four-year-old kids, then when they were seven and nine and fourteen and eighteen and twenty-plus. It was a mantra that my Dad, of blessed memory, told me: “Life is not a bowl of cherries. So…
The House of Love and Death By Andrew Klavan (Mysterious Press, 312 pages, $27) A sad drawback in what passes for art today is that too many “artists” are less perceptive than the perceivers. The bar for film and literature…
The president of a self-described Catholic university is endorsing controversial drag shows on campus, despite students’ protests. Ahead of a drag show “symposium” scheduled for November 3rd at the University of Notre Dame, the school’s president Fr. John Jenkins is…
Immediately following the brutal Hamas attack on Israel that killed over 1,000 Israeli citizens, students across the country released anti-Israel statements and organized protests. Earlier this week, high school students in Texas held a “walk out“ in support of Palestine,…
The soul, the mind, and the hand; where is the education that nourishes them all, and in relation to one another? “They build your new houses out of chalk and sticks,” said my friend the all-purpose carpenter, plumber, mason, and…
I am delighted to say that I will be joining the new Thales College, as a professor of humanities. What that means, I shall try to describe by way of contrast. Let us suppose I am at almost any other…
The muted response from college and university presidents to barbarism inflicted upon Israel might not have raised eyebrows in the pre–George Floyd world. But since that time, “obligatory” describes the role of public figures, to include faculty and administrators, in…
For years, whenever Europeans wanted to impress guests, they would say, “I studied at Harvard.” These days, however, to impress guests and gain their respect, it is better to say, “And I didn’t study at Harvard!” The “2024 College Free…
