Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Heritage on May 14, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. [E]very political philosopher has always recognized, that there must be some conviction, usually embodied in the form of a story that can be told, comprehended, and taken to […]
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Wearing a puffy bright orange beanie tilted at an angle on his bald head and an oversized T-shirt depicting Drake with a yarmulke on his head, Jewish rapper Rami Matan, aka Kosha Dillz, gesticulated enthusiastically with his hands as he stood before the crowd that had assembled outside of The Wilmette Theater. The location for the Tuesday night […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on All Things Rhapsodical on May 17, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. This is just up on Chronicles and not paywalled. Michel Houellebecq is a remarkable figure in literature. He has written a number of excellent novels, dealing […]
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Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World is a book about the recent anthropological origins of the celebration of unreason that permeates academia and much of the world we now live in, especially in the U.S.. The book logically falls into three parts. The first and most lengthy part of the book is devoted to […]
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Forty years ago, it was “political correctness” and hate speech codes. Then came “social justice” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). Now, universities promote the “health promoting campus” (HPC), which, at first glance, seems positive. But history urges caution. The student affairs profession has been relabeling the same thing for forty years, and the HPC […]
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The year is 1901, and the British Empire rules the waves. The small island nation’s maritime empire crisscrosses the globe, governing over twenty-five percent of the world’s population. As a blue power, Britain’s national strategy is to protect its trade networks, ensure freedom of navigation for its merchants, maintain the balance of power in Europe, […]
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