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Darel Paul's excellent First Things article on the Jason Arday scandal pinpoints a number of the problems now rife in academia, problems that I can attest are so well-established that, were they not so immoral, one might call them "venerable." The rot goe

This is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's week. Amid the backlash over her cavalier dismissal of "Woke 1"-the era of far-left activism and rhetoric that peaked in 2020-speculation about a 2028 presidential run, new reports that her engagement had ended two years

Speyer is a charming city on the west bank of the Rhine River. Its splendid medieval core is dominated by a magnificent eleventh-century cathedral, the resting place of German emperors for three hundred years and one of Europe's greatest expressions of Ro

In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV writes that a school should be a place where the young learn to "seek and love the truth." He worries about an educational culture in which an "incessant flow of information" displaces "research, reflection and discern

Who is Jason Arday? Until last week, the man at the center of the biggest recent scandal in Anglo-American higher education was professor of sociology of education at the University of Cambridge and a professorial fellow at Jesus College. These are among

The Lost Boys, a Broadway musical adapted from the 1980s vampire flick, opens with a flickering specter. A doomed cop is searching a condemned warehouse when a TV suddenly brightens. On the screen is Ronald Reagan, delivering a Christmas speech on family

In his breakout 2000 memoir, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain recounts his early years as a cook in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The memoir serves as the basis for director Matt Johnson's Tony, but Bourdain fan

Here's a simple, biblical truth: We're never as smart as we think we are, and we're never as wise as we need to be. The best intentions can have unintended consequences. I remembered this recently when a friend shared a chart posted on X by Ryan Burge. Bu

In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Ralph C. Hancock joins in to discuss his recent book, Love and Virtue in a Secular Age: Christianity, Modernity, and the Human Good. The conversation is emb

Five years ago, the most powerful media companies in the world-Facebook and Twitter, as it was then called-chose to deplatform Donald Trump. They cited public safety concerns following the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. But their action was also a he