Columbia Nooses Linked To Euro-Centrism?
Here’s another bit of wisdom from the Columbia Spectator, this time on the repulsive noose incidents. Here’s the first sentence of the op-ed. See if anything strikes you as odd. In the past weeks’...
View ArticleNo Western Culture, Please–We’re Students
Whenever anyone asks me what sealed my commitment to teaching the heritage of the West, I recall a minor uprising at my college long ago. In some ways it was tame enough. No sit-ins, no public...
View ArticleThe Texas Mugging Of Western Civ
Last November, Rob Koons, director of the Program in Western Civilization and American Institutions at the University of Texas, was abruptly fired from that position. In swift succession, the name of...
View Article‘Defend the Humanities’–A Dishonest Slogan
College foreign language and literature programs have been in decline for some time, first shrinking, then being consolidated with other departments, and now in a growing number of cases actually...
View ArticleCapitalism and Western Civilization: Liberal Education
(Cross-posted from National Association of Scholars) Speaking of business and management majors, Douglas Campbell and James E. Fletcher argue in A Better Way to Educate Professionals that their...
View ArticleEurope: The Disappearance of a Continent
What the College Board did to American history two years ago it has now done to European history: erase and contort. Writing at the National Review Online’s The Corner, Stanley Kurtz makes clear what...
View ArticleEurope: The Disappearance of a Continent
What the College Board did to American history two years ago it has now done to European history: erase and contort. Writing at the National Review Online’s The Corner, Stanley Kurtz makes clear what...
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