Higher education

Not that anyone can blame him — it’s a political win-win for the White House

The ‘School of General Education Act’ insists that all students in a state’s public university system take a prescribed sequence of courses that will take them through most of Western history

In America today, our virtues and successes are our undoing, much more than our vices or failures

To think critically is to think with the utmost serious attention about the sources which warrant your attention

The Greeks had a concept of the ‘intellect’ that is the diametric opposite of our own

Just over ninety years ago, the Oxford Union carried the motion ‘That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country’

The accusations of conservative hypocrisy are wide of the mark

Even small schools must find demons to exorcize — and the busybodies at Middlebury were ready

On campus, complaints about ‘lack of collegiality’ are a way to silence dissent

Following a rigorous investigation, the Stanford president has resigned