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Compassionate college closures: an exhortation
Is it possible to navigate college closings ethically and compassionately?
Cornerstone University alumni react to the termination of Arts, Music, and Humanities programs
Cornerstone University recently terminated its Arts, Music, and Humanities programs. Tenured faculty were fired. Get up to speed here and here. Some of our sources in Grand Rapids have gathered these comments from Cornerstone alums and former students: A Journalism […]
Interview: Joshua Kinlaw on the classics and classical education
Classical Education’s best motto: “Let the kids read!”
Cornerstone University responds to our story on faculty cuts and the termination of humanities and arts programs
Earlier this week, we called your attention to Cornerstone University’s decision to fire tenured professors and terminate all humanities and arts programs. Get up to speed here. Yesterday, WOOD TV-8 the Grand Rapids NBC affiliate, did a story on our […]
The Author’s Corner with Richard E. Ocejo
Richard E. Ocejo is Professor of Sociology at John Jay College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. This interview is based on his new book, Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City (Princeton […]
Daniel K. Williams reviews “Two Visions for an Evangelical Reformation” in Christian Scholar’s Review
In their recent books, Russell Moore and Karen Swallow Prior offer two visions for an evangelical reformation.
Interview: Miles Smith’s Religion and Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War
The Early Republic saw religion or faith—not “churches” per se—as worthwhile and important for a healthy society.
PREVIEW: The Politics of the Cross
A Christian alternative to partisanship
What Tortured Poets Might Teach Us
More than just how to shake it off, it turns out
Baseball, life, and honest reporting
What makes a good, honest reporter? Someone who neither minimizes nor maximizes a walk but sees, writes, and leaves the prophecy to others.
Without fear or favor: the D.A. who convicted a president
The story of the D.A. who secured President Trump’s recent conviction is worth examining in more detail.
Is real learning possible in universities?
Cultural critic William Deresiewicz thinks it is getting harder and harder for people to find humanities-based learning in the modern academy. He offers some alternatives.–places were one can read deeply and engage ideas in such a way that might nourish […]
The Wide Awakes
Over at The Washington Post, Jon Grinspan, curator of political history at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, introduces us to a group of “torchlit young marchers” who “helped save American democracy” during the Civil War era. Here is […]
Should liberals “punch left”?
Here is a taste of Jonathan Chait’s review of Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix’s Solidarity. The review is titled, “In Defense of Punching Left.” “The role of protest is another division between liberals and leftists. While both see protest as […]
A last-minute graduation gift guide
Stumped about gift ideas for your favorite graduate(s) of all ages? Here are some ideas.
Blessing of Unicorns: Liberalism, children, eldercare, the Lyceum movement, and beautiful writing
This week’s Blessing of Unicorns: Liberalism, children, eldercare, the Lyceum movement, and beautiful writing
Robert Kagan on antiliberalism and Christian nationalism
Here is an excerpt from Kagan’s book Rebellion: How Antiliberalism is Tearing America Apart. The excerpt is published today at The Washington Post: Trump not only acknowledges his goals, past and present; he promises to do it again if he […]
The Author’s Corner with Mauricio Castro
Mauricio Castro is Assistant Professor of History and Chair of Latin American Studies at Centre College. This interview is based on his new book, Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformation […]
LONG FORM: Left Conservatism?
George Scialabba’s lifetime of writing—and our age itself—call forth the category