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REVIEW: Animal Spirits?

Eric Miller   |  July 26, 2024

Jackson Lears takes us where few historians have dared—or even seen

REVIEW: The Iconoclast

Jim Cullen   |  July 25, 2024

Jackson Lears’s lifelong quarrel with the meritocracy that produced him

Live blogging night 4 of the GOP convention

John Fea   |  July 18, 2024

It’s Trump’s turn tonight. Check out our coverage of night 1, night 2, and night 3. ***** U. S. Senator Steve Daines of Montana. He is the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Says that this morning on his […]

Albert Mohler’s theology is not particularly helpful for explaining what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania over the weekend

John Fea   |  July 15, 2024

In his take on the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes: For Donald Trump, his last breath could have come yesterday, broadcast to the entire world. Thankfully, that was not the […]

The Author’s Corner with Jean Dennison

Rachel Petroziello   |  July 15, 2024

Jean Dennison is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington. This interview is based on her new book, Vital Relations: How the Osage Nation Moves Indigenous Nationhood into the Future (University of North Carolina Press, 2024). JF: What […]

Oklahoma announces a “complete overhaul” of its social studies curriculum. The state is relying on an “A-List Executive Review Committee” of conservative activists

John Fea   |  July 11, 2024

Here is the Washington Examiner: Oklahoma’s top education official is overhauling the state’s social studies curriculum to emphasize American exceptionalism to combat what he says is left-wing messaging that teaches children to “hate America.” In a document obtained by the Washington Examiner, Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction […]

We Are Not Serious People

Elizabeth Stice   |  July 11, 2024

Our outrage has proven ineffective. What might that mean?

The chair of Cornerstone University’s Board of Trustees responds to the school’s cuts in arts and humanities (UPDATED)

John Fea   |  July 10, 2024

Are you new to this story? Get up to speed here. The alumni of Cornerstone University recently received this statement from Richard S. Koole, chair of the Cornerstone University Board. Current was able to obtain a copy: Fellow Alumni, Like […]

Some on the Christian Right are unhappy with the 2024 GOP platform

John Fea   |  July 8, 2024

Today the GOP platform committee met in Milwaukee. As we noted over the weekend, there was some debate over whether the platform should have a statement calling for a national ban on abortion. Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee, does not […]

Where are the conservatives and pluralists in higher education?

John Fea   |  July 3, 2024

Steve Teles, a political scientist at The Johns Hopkins University, writes: “The university’s ideological narrowing has advanced so far that even liberal institutionalists–faculty who believe universities should be places of intellectual pluralism and adhere to the traditional academic norms of […]

The Author’s Corner with Aaron W. Marrs

Rachel Petroziello   |  July 1, 2024

Aaron W. Marrs is on the staff of the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State. This interview is based on his new book, The American Transportation Revolution: A Social and Cultural History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024). […]

Rabbit Food

Colleen Vasconcellos   |  June 28, 2024

Living requires flexing—for persons and for cultures, too 

No Angels or Devils

Vincent Bacote   |  June 27, 2024

‘It’s complicated’ is not simply a trendy phrase

Compassionate college closures: an exhortation

Nadya Williams   |  June 26, 2024

Is it possible to navigate college closings ethically and compassionately?

More questions about Cornerstone University’s decision to fire humanities professors

John Fea   |  June 23, 2024

Not familiar with this story? Get up to speed here and here and here. Cornerstone University is trying to refute our claims that it has eliminated all arts and humanities programs. In an interview with MinistryWatch blogger Warren Cole Smith, Cornerstone spokesperson Heide […]

Cornerstone University alumni react to the termination of Arts, Music, and Humanities programs

John Fea   |  June 21, 2024

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

Nadya Williams and Joshua Kinlaw   |  June 20, 2024

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

John Fea   |  June 19, 2024

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

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 18, 2024

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 […]

Cornerstone University fires tenured professors and terminates all humanities and arts programs

John Fea   |  June 16, 2024

I recently finished Rick Ostrander’s memoir focused on his career in evangelical higher education. Among Rick’s many stops in Christian college leadership was Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He served as provost at the university from 2009 to 2015. […]

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