In Episode 9 of The Week in Science, Director of Science Programs at the National Association of Scholars (NAS) Scott Turner takes us on a tour of scientific upheaval—political, bureaucratic, and biological. We begin with the five stages of grief—not for people, but for scientists, who are still grappling with the Trump administration’s supposed war […]
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We couldn’t find the exit to the parking structure. We were also afraid to arrive late to a conference on Exodus 2. I spotted a young woman who appeared to be a student. She was more than helpful in leading us out of the parking structure. On the way, I asked her what her major […]
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What is the West? Stepping onto most college campuses today, it is something to be reviled rather than defined. The Italian scholastic Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 AD) is often most credited with arguing for a harmony of human reason and divine revelation as leading to truth, and the use of reason in approaching divine texts. Revelation […]
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In a landmark decision, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has reached an agreement with the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) requiring the removal of trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas’s records from the women’s category. The university must also restore records to the female athletes displaced by Thomas, issue a formal apology to those affected by […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on July 02, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. When I signed up for Professor Michael Whitehawk’s sociology class at Texas State University (TXST), I hoped it would challenge me to look at society in […]
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“Nice university you got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it.” That brutish gangster threat is the “diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hustle in its most succinct form. It captures the protection racket that has plagued American higher education for the past five years, certainly since the hot, violent summer of 2020 coerced […]
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Editor’s Note: A version of this article was originally published on the author’s Substack on June 6, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. A new era is here. With ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok now widely available, artificial intelligence (AI) tools are starting to reshape how […]
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