In 2007, a report by the Committee on Intellectual Life painted a disheartening picture of academic life at Georgetown, replete with grade inflation and a general lack of intellectual vigor. A new ...

A late-night visit to Lauinger Library anytime during the next couple of weeks will reveal mobs of students working hard. Students studying intensely. Alone. I’m interested in the last: the ...

About a century ago, the term “man of letters” was in Britain replaced by “intellectual.” Daniel Johnson examines the difference between the two, and what that difference says about the state of the ...

For more than a year, Johns Hopkins University and the American Enterprise Institute—a leading center-right think tank based in Washington, D.C.—have been building bridges to facilitate collaborative ...

“IF I had learned education,” old Cornelius Vanderbilt once said, “I would not have had time to learn anything else.” That was the voice of a past America, which admired the man of letters but adored ...

At the start of the school year, two professors provide some hard truths about the state of academia and what you should fight for. People rally and march in support of universities and education on ...

In the public imagination, the word “professor” evokes a variety of stereotypes: pedants, ideologues, bookworms and socially inept eggheads, among others. There’s: These portrayals, while exaggerated ...

Yet philanthropic interventions are no less democratic than any other ways in which a university is governed. Indeed, academia is rife with impositions from non-intellectuals. Singling out donors for ...

Roosevelt Montás is an outspoken advocate for a humanistic liberal arts education rooted in transformative texts, particularly the Great Books tradition. As director of Columbia’s Center for the Core ...