3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1016+ words) Image by Celt Studio on Adobe; Asset ID#: 1958274459 On September 9, 2021, my grandmother died, a little more than two weeks after my grandfather. They contracted the Delta variant of COVID-19 in early August that year and then went through a tragic…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (720+ words) As more than two million students enrolled in college this fall, many others chose not to. Instead, more and more young people are turning away from the traditional college model and toward alternatives such as apprenticeships, technical programs, and the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (353+ words) Art by Beck & Stone In December 2024, I began editing a series for the National Association of Scholars that we eventually came to call The Road to the American Revolution. The aim was to retrace the events that led to July…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (439+ words) I wish colleges would commit themselves to neutrality, open inquiry, and intellectual diversity. I have argued for years that this is the best model for higher education and that it puts schools on the path toward finding truth. Many colleges,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (303+ words) In an upcoming episode of Café Berlin, Ian Oxnevad and I are joined by Stephanie Slade, senior editor at Reason and author of the forthcoming book Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right. Fusionism helped shape the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (177+ words) The ongoing war over Iran’s nuclear program has overshadowed the end of a financial fight with Iran here at home. Originally founded as the Pahlavi Foundation in 1973 before the fall of the Shah, the organization was later rebranded as the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (262+ words) After decades of insisting that we should teach students “how to think, not what to think,” it has now become fashionable for conservative professors to advocate for the opposite approach: teaching students to think as we think and believe what…...