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Leading a Worthy Life in a Scattered Time: A Conversation with Leon Kass
Leon Kass discusses Leading a Worthy Life.
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Academic Freedom Won’t Survive Carnival Act Universities
Public institutions of supposedly liberal learning, which are increasingly alienating mainstream Americans, have no entitlement to public support.
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Sins of Admissions
(image: Tero Vesalainen / shutterstock.com)The college-admissions scandal enrages conservatives, who detest the concentrated power that today’s “best schools” represent; but we always had an elite.
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A School of Second Chances
“There was a palpable silence in the class,” a professor writes, “as I talked about the 620,000 people who died, the 4 million slaves who were liberated, the President (in my opinion, our best...
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An Education for This Republic
Josiah Bunting III Published over a decade ago, Josiah Bunting III’s An Education for Our Time presents the plan of dying, septuagenarian billionaire John Adams, a descendant of those Adamses, for a...
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Liberal Arts and Self-Government: A Test Case
This November, political scientists will have an invaluable opportunity to undertake a case study in the effect of liberal education and liberal arts colleges on the rationality, integrity, and tone of...
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Legal Education Better Call Saul
This site features an excellent Liberty Forum discussion this month on the future of legal education. If Ken Randall is right about a “blue ocean for law schools” (and he probably is), it looks like a...
View ArticleMarco Rubio vs. Aristotle?
Aristotle, unfortunately, won’t be on the ballot. Marco Rubio’s form of dissing liberal education is probably more ridiculous than the more insistent and policy-driven efforts of Scott Walker, although...
View ArticleKilling Socrates
Marco Rubio demonstrated keen political instincts during one of the primary debates when he used his opening remarks to argue for an end to the stigmatization of vocational training, handily linking...
View ArticleBludgeoning Aspiration to Get to Equality
There is no more fateful failure of modern political thought than its failure to distinguish between elitism and social exclusivity. From this failure stems an enormous, costly, and increasingly...
View ArticleJustifying the Liberal Arts
The raison d’être for government funding and subsidy of education is that, beyond return of education to the educated person, educated individuals also generate positive externalities and public goods...
View ArticleAcademic Freedom Won’t Survive Carnival Act Universities
Generally a person is in her grave before the profane start dancing on it. Fresno State University Professor Randa Jarrar, by contrast, could not tarry an hour after the announcement of Barbara...
View ArticleSins of Admissions
You might have heard the adage, “There will be prayer in schools as long as there are tests in schools.” The same goes for cheating on tests. There will be bribery, deception, extortion, and other...
View ArticleThe Purpose of a Liberal Education
When my son was seven years old, he could reel off all the stats anyone would ever need to know about Detroit Tigers baseball. Batting averages, RBIs, home runs, or stolen bases—he knew them all. Of...
View ArticleEducating for Tacit Knowledge
Classical education is in full bloom. Inevitably, success comes with controversy. Critics of the classical curriculum note that it is content-heavy, with all students expected to learn a substantial...
View ArticleThe School of Aspen
I first became fascinated with the Aspen Institute when I was a young partner in Big Law. Having had the benefit of a Great Books education and having taken a master’s degree at the University of...
View ArticleServile Sciences
Among the many slogans adopted during Covid pandemic, one that was constantly repeated was “Trust the experts.” The models could’ve been way off, the numbers of cases and deaths completely distorted...
View ArticleIn Defense of Voracious Reading
Every so often, I come across a repeated sentiment expressed by different people at different times. “It’s far more impressive,” they might say, “to read 3-5 excellent books well in a year, than to...
View ArticleOn Being Your Own Teacher
“Have you yet recognized that you are and always have been your own teacher?”These words have stayed in my mind since 2006, when I first noticed them stretched across a prominent wall inside St....
View ArticleLiberal Arts and the Future of the University
After decades of conservatives bemoaning the moral decline of the university, there is now widespread agreement that serious reforms are needed. The last couple of years have seen a proliferation of...
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