Editors’ Note: This essay is adapted from an address delivered at the annual meeting of the Front Porch Republic and should be read with that in mind. It will not be news…
Category: Education
Subcontracting Our Minds
A Baylor colleague, assigned the task of helping one of our deans persuade the faculty to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into our classrooms and assignments, sensed opposition in the room from what…
Taking The Anxious Generation Further
In her recent review of Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, Claire Morell writes that “the tide is finally turning” when it comes to children, smartphones, and social media. Thanks in large part…
Empty Nests, Then and Now
It is hard to improve on Homer for a description of a ritual that is about to take place all across the country: They cried out, shrilling cries, pulsing sharper than birds…
Back to School: A Roundup of Our Top Essays on Education and Culture
Editors’ Note: In recognition of schools starting around the country this week, we compiled a list of our top education-related essays. “There’s More to Graduate School Than Careerism,” Jeffrey Bristol “Fostering a…
The End of the Party
On July 4th, the British Conservative Party fell to its worst election defeat since it emerged as a major political force in the early 1800s. After an unhappy, unproductive, and turbulent period…
Don’t Major in English: And Other Bad Advice from the World
Editors’ Note: This essay is the third in a four-part series on the decadence of modern society. This series examines the cultural roots of our economic, demographic, intellectual, institutional, and moral decadence….
Why Should a Christian Study the Humanities?
Editors’ Note: This week, we published a four-part series on the necessity of beauty across contexts: art, homemaking, architecture, and education. This series critically examines the role of beauty in renewing culture….
In Defense of Free Speech and the Mission of the University
My friend and former student Yoram Hazony has argued in Public Discourse that it’s time for universities to abandon any commitment to “absolute free speech.” In light of rampant expressions of anti-Semitism…
English for the Dazed and Confused
When I was in high school in the mid-1970s, first in Rockville outside Washington, DC, then in north San Diego County, a year of classic American literature was a standard thing. These…