Elite colleges are engaged in a balancing act: They are trying to maintain their reputation for having the best students…

The recent lamentable travails afflicting American academia — falling public support, suppression of free expression, declining integrity of research as…

When I was a boy riding the bus to our diocesan high school, an older kid sometimes sat in the…

While most college students in the U.S. reluctantly dragged themselves to their first day of spring semester classes, students in…

Harvard University has had a rough few months. It seemed as though the series of scandals that beset the once-revered…

Last week, teaching, for Thales College, one of the sequences of classes in Western Civilization, I and four students, by…

Claudine Gay announced Tuesday that she is resigning from her position as president of Harvard University. The decision, she said,…

I would rather not have another national conversation about race in America. But if we must, can we at least…

I wrote about Bates College’s first two major leaguers, the first man to score a touchdown on historic Garcelon Field,…

A few columns ago, I addressed the subject of what it takes for one to be “obnoxiously gay,” a description…