The White House occupant must be a national leader first and a partisan politician a distant second, Mark Bauerlein argues.
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Kevin Carey takes a look at a new online institution that doesn't accept federal financial-aid money and offers classes for free.
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The problem started with a phone call from the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. It was the winter of 2001, and the guy from the Loft was calling about an essay I had written called “How to Be an Academic Failure: An Introduction for Beginners.”
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David Barash recounts how he turned down proferred money from a logging company, thereby retaining his ethical purity but quite possibly doing harm to the natural world.
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Like it or not, faculty will have to prove their value in one arena or another, Mark Bauerlein writes.
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Gina Barreca on a conference that celebrated the cool mists of Victorian London in the warm mists of coastal California.
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From a checking-account perspective, maybe. From a life-lessons perspective, Naomi Schaefer Riley is not persuaded, even by David Leonhardt.
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"Brainstorm; Review; Lives of the Mind" A blog run by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
A blog dedicated to the reclamation and protection of individual rights at monocultural public universities.
"Brainstorm; Review; Lives of the Mind" A blog run by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
First Principles is the online journal of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute where college and university faculty and students as well as those interested in ideas can find original content and archival material on American intellectual conservatism.
Place. Limits. Liberty.
Mid-length articles on the politics, the business, and the philosophy of higher education, and how a traditional liberal arts education is faring in contemporary academia.
