Trembling in the Ivory Tower
Kenneth Lasson: Trembling in the Ivory Tower; Bancroft Press; 2003; 196 pp. If one listens to spokesmen for the higher-education establishment, America’s colleges and universities are the envy of the world,…
Free Speech on Campus?
Sure—as long as you haven’t previously said anything to offend groups that now hold trump cards.
A Sickness in the Soul
It is time to recognize that academia–including the University of North Carolina–has lost its moral compass.
Free College for Inmates?
States like North Carolina should look to private funding for prison education programs.
Debating HBCUs
An event at NC Central posed tough questions about the viability of historically black universities.
Bullying or Caving In?
A report claims that the philosophy department at the University of Colorado-Boulder harasses its female faculty.
A Tower of Babel, Not a Marketplace of Ideas
The proliferation of identity politics on our campuses is destroying intellectual vitality.
An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Equity funding for college students is attracting attention, but can’t work as long as we have easy government loans.
Mission Creep at the Infirmary
Should student fees pay for sex counselors and improvisational theater?
The Academy Then and Now
Academic leftists used to be interested in ideas and arguments; much less so today.