What societal institutions, other than mosques, show a greater receptivity to the pro-Hamas message than the campuses? Neither transgenders wearing keffiyehs nor the great number of students owning high-end glamping gear strikes as the strangest thing about the protests. Their…
American universities rode a tall wave of public esteem in the last few decades. In the Information Age, the value of learning naturally soars. By 2008, the chaos and violence of the Sixties and Seventies campuses was so forgotten that…
Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life By Joseph Epstein (Free Press, 269 pages, $29.99) In the introduction to his autobiography, out this month from Free Press (sorry, this doesn’t mean you don’t…
Ever since June of 2022, when Arizona became the first state to legalize universal school choice, the adoption of this K–12th grade education reform has accelerated well beyond even its boosters’ wildest dreams. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, North Carolina,…
Boston University, Tufts, Wellesley College, and Yale aren’t the four best schools in the United States — just the four most expensive ones. The private schools each charge in excess of $90,000 for the 2024–2025 school year, the Boston Globe…
The idea that children are best raised in a household with a married mother and father marginalizes racial minorities and LGBTQ people and should be eradicated, says Bethany L. Letiecq, associate professor at George Mason University’s College of Education and…
Brigham Young University’s attempt to stay true to itself strangely elicits outrage from the journalists, academics, and activists who created our age of identity. Jeffrey Holland, who spoke of attending Brigham Young University during the 1950s and leading it during…
These are not the greatest times for university faculty and nonacademic staff. Falling enrollments have squeezed budgets at many schools, leading to small or even non-existent salary increases during a period of enhanced inflation. The salary surveys of the American…
The Kinsey Institute celebrates Indiana University’s decision to retain ties despite a 2023 state law barring tax dollars subsidizing the controversial group. The decision to keep the sex-research outfit as part of the university seems to rely on accounting gimmicks…
