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The Myth of Meritocracy

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

A meritocracy fits America’s sense of itself as free from the class-based social structures that defined the European countries from which our predecessors fled.

By the Lakes of Babylon

CULTURAL COUNTERPOINT

Jason M. Morgan

Fr. Hesburgh proved to be a perfect avatar for the Notre Dame he created: an endorser of some kind of vaguely conceived “natural religion.”

The Great Awokening: The Puritan Roots of the Social Justice Warrior

Jason M. Morgan

Social Justice Warriors behave like cult members. They are little Cromwells who demand Robespierre-level ideological purity of every single person.

I Am Not White

WHAT CONSTITUTES CULTURE ?

Thomas Storck

Public discourse remains limited to material concerns, but what really differentiates human beings is culture, which is founded on religion.

An Extraordinary Educator's Enduring Legacy

Christopher Beiting

A review by Christopher Beiting of Francis Bethel, O.S.B's book John Senior and the Restoration of Realism

Can a Return to Augustine Resolve the Current Educational Crisis?

K.F. Stewart

A review by K.F. Stewart of On Education, Formation, Citizenship and the Lost Purpose of Learning

"Critical Thinking" in the Postmodern University

GUEST COLUMN

Clifford Staples

The Cult of Diversity at Providence College

A Catholic college, employing the vague and undefined empty vessel of "diversity," is willingly suppressing its own Catholic culture in favor of an infection with Western sexual obsessions.

Why We Need a New Model of Catholic Higher Education

A GERMINATING IN THE WEEDS OF IDEOLOGICAL SECULARISM

Michael B. Ewbank

Betraying the Fort

BIDEN & BOEHNER AT NOTRE DAME

John Lyon

Permanent Irresolution & the Art of Making a Public Argument

GUEST COLUMN

Robert Barron

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

Pushers of political correctness now desire, if not demand, something called "deep diversity" — that is, eliminating all signs of "whiteness" from campuses across the country.

Fingers on the Triggers

The "trigger warning" movement seeks to scrub college campuses clean of words and ideas that might cause discomfort, hurt feelings, or negative thoughts. Almost everything has this potential.

How Pro-Lifers Are Saving Higher Education

THE HUMANITIES' HOLLOW HUMANITY

Jason M. Morgan

The Toxic Effects of "Rape-Culture Feminism"

ONE IN FIVE COLLEGE WOMEN SUBJECT TO ASSAULT?

Jeffrey R. Jackson

A Chronicle of Christendom's Decline

Frederick W. Marks

A review by Frederick W. Marks of The Crisis of Christendom: 1815-2005: A History of Christendom, Vol. 6

An Autonomous Philosopher & the Mandatum

ACADEMIC FREEDOM BOUND?

Paul Symington

Hollow Theology

While Catholic colleges have stronger core requirements than their secular counterparts, most have abolished requirements for students to take Catholic theology courses.

Ivy League Culture Wars

There are campus activists and groups-- who are not necessarily Catholic or even Christian-- at Ivy League colleges fighting for traditional moral values on marriage and sexuality.

The Marketplace of Ideas -- Command-Economy Style

If you want to continue teaching on college campuses, it's best to hold to the politically correct version of the genesis of homosexual orientation.

Another Victim of Institutional Coddling

On at least one college campus, teaching certain aspects of the Catholic faith -- even in the context of a class on Catholicism -- is considered "hate speech."

Notre Dame, R.I.P.

GUEST COLUMN

Michael V. McIntire

Notre Dame's honoring of President Obama was the full flowering of the university's rebellion against the Magisterium of the Church.

Classical Education in Southern California

Thomas Aquinas College has been providing a superb classical education to students from all over the country for nearly four decades.

The Secularizing of Catholic Universities

FROM ORTHODOXY TO HERESY

Michael V. McIntire

False Theologians, Then & Now

HENRY VIII & THE DISSENTERS IN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Is Georgetown Still Catholic?

LAST THINGS

Tom Bethell

Is Providence College All It's Cracked Up to Be?

A CLOSER LOOK

Jeffrey R. Jackson

Keeping the Light Burning

Philip Blosser

Reviews of Quality With Soul: How Six Premier Colleges and Universities Keep Faith With Their Religious Traditions by Robert Benne... Higher Learning and Catholic Traditions edited by Robert E. Sullivan

Let's Abolish Most Catholic Colleges & Universities

IT'S TIME TO TRY SOMETHING ELSE

Marian E. Crowe

Blitzkrieg on the Western Front

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Student-Professor Sex

THE STENCH OF THE ZOO

J. A. Gray

Homosexual Memoirs for Catholic Freshmen: Why?

NOWHERE NEAR HEAVEN'S COAST

Katherine Kersten

Can We Revitalize Catholic Higher Education?

"UNCATECHIZED CAME I INTO COLLEGE, UNCATECHIZED GO I FORTH"

Marian E. Crowe

Shack-Ups & Shakedowns on Campus

Just who qualifies as a "partner" in a "partnership"?

"Catholic Studies": The New Catholic Ghetto

A NEW ELECTIVE AT CATHOLIC COLLEGES: CATHOLICISM!

Nino Langiulli

The Rift Between the Finest Minds & The Limp Academics Now in Power

SPOILED AMERICANS, SOFT PROFESSORS & STUNTED STUDENTS

Robert Greer Cohn

Should Classes in Catholic Colleges & Universities Begin With Prayer?

IF CRUCIFIXES IN CLASSROOMS, WHY NOT PRAYER?

Gregory R. Beabout

What to Do About Our Largely Secularized Catholic Colleges & Universities?

IT'S TIME FOR THE BISHOPS TO USE THEIR SHEPHERD'S CROOK

Kenneth D. Whitehead

To Denigrate "Western Civilization" Is to Disinherit Our Children

NEW WORLD ORDER: HI TECH, NO SOUL

Lawrence D. Hogan

The Nihilism & Atheism of Allan Bloom

HOISTING A STRAUSSIAN CONSERVATIVE WITH HIS OWN PETARD

Philip E. Devine

Shame on You, Harvard!

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

Discovering the Church in Harvard Yard

A "POSITIVELY BIZARRE" CONVERSION

John C. Cort

Academic Fundamentalism?

Robert N. Bellah

Review of The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

Small Gestures

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Being clever, brilliant, even what gets called “well-educated” is not to be equated, necessarily, with being considerate, kind, tactful, even plain polite or civil.