…most Jews in America are white, they are oppressors, notwithstanding the long history of anti-Semitism in America. Through this conjunction of white Americans and American Jews, those in academia who…
…Scholars program without first disclosing their history to strangers. [RELATED: Is It Time to Retire Social and Emotional Learning?] CCC’s guiding principles for teaching currently incarcerated students are organized in…
…courses often cause the greatest friction. STEM students may be able to delay taking required writing or history courses. Humanities majors often dread math or statistics. The core issue is…
…Library of Congress. Puzzling questions lurk behind the curtain, though. Just why was evolution the theme of the Scopes trial? Why not something else, like civics or history? Why was…
…to Nazis. Jews are painted as culprits in their past and future demise Many readers will find this hard to believe. It seems to defy U.S. history, to ridicule refined…
…of Public Law, President of the Laboratory of the Republic Ivan Burel, Associate Professor, Doctor of History Joseph Ciccolini, University Professor – Hospital Practitioner Charles Coutel, Philosopher Philippe de Lara,…
…topic. Hannah Arendt was an independent scholar when she wrote her masterpiece, The Origins of Totalitarianism. Max Dimont worked in advertising when he gave us Jews, God, and History. Eric…
…college student announcing one of these career paths at Thanksgiving dinner is bound to receive approving nods and complimentary remarks. But what about fields such as philosophy, English, or history—those…
…Philosophy sharpens logic. Literature trains the moral imagination. History cultivates perspective. The liberal arts don’t just fill our heads; they shape our lives. So let’s drop the idea that a…
…delivers a rigorous reflection, informed by social sciences, the history of ideas, and cognitive psychology, to describe the mechanisms that can lead brilliant minds to adopt false, absurd, or totalitarian…
…the humanities’ employability problem: hospitals won’t be hiring fresh history majors as surgeons, regardless of the social benefits. Instead, colleges could require all students to take classes in history and…
…chair, nor for it to become a doctrine. What we are doing, from our respective disciplines—in my case, the French language and its history—is observing with concern the way in…
…who’s interviewed and hired Columbia grads, notes their regret over the Core Curriculum’s disconnect from their broader studies. Most lack a solid grounding in American, Western, or ancient history; have…
…and adversarialism, but through a carelessness in thought, combined with a rejection of maturity and restraint, it has created a self-image of “revolutionology” as jurisprudence. Throughout history, such a worldview…
…it provided a solid foundation in the field, or at least enabled one so inclined to obtain such a foundation. The curriculum included the history of higher education, the philosophy…
…history I studied was West African colonial history. I had some incredibly good teachers, and I had the saving grace of being an assiduous reader of many subjects. However, I…
…outnumbering Republicans 50 to 1; grievance studies such as Women’s Studies or Queer Studies displacing real learning; and, consequently, graduates who are ignorant, especially in American civics, world history, math,…
…a double standard, rooted in the old anti-Catholic bigotry that stains the history of the United States of America,” he said. “We know that in any other context whatsoever, a…
…characterization of antisemitism to incidents in the late 19th century. Prof. Orit Bashkin spoke about the history of anti-Zionism and attempted to minimize the pervasiveness of anti-Semitism in the Muslim…
…March, the board had pledged to dismantle UVA’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) apparatus. History matters at Thomas Jefferson’s university, and UVA’s recent history is disturbing: In 2020, UVA’s board…
…financial success, only to find degrees—often unrelated to available jobs—yield no return on investment. To be sure, a college education holds intrinsic value—I studied history myself—but borrowing thousands for fields…
…African American intellectual history, race and the production of disciplinary knowledge.” The Associate Director of English Education, Abigail Kindelsperger, not only works as an instructor for “student teachers” but is…
…as it stands today: A Lifetime of Learning, a World of Opportunity Columbia College’s 100-year-old-plus uniquely designed Core Curriculum of philosophy, history, politics, literature, art, music, science and writing provides…
…remains is an aggregate of tribes vying for power. And in doing so, these tribes forget that the history of human progress is the history of the values that have…
…protection of one’s own family, physical integrity, and hard-earned private property, and the citizen understands better the dangers of government overreach. The Fourteenth Amendment, in all its complex history, comes…
…What does this brief history of the last two decades of American higher education tell us? Rather than being the result of a president throwing his weight around, the college-for-all…
…prepares them for their next step in life and that they have enough knowledge of American history to become voting citizens of this country. If their local high school is…
…a truism that is as relevant today as it was nearly seventy-five years ago: There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s…
…hours. Events that CJA hosts have a history of this happening, with a Matisyahu concert undergoing a similar fate last year, and CJA is not an organization that bows to…
…answer that one, but Sidky suggests it is or was a precedent for the postmodern invasion. This detailed social and intellectual history of the post-modern European invasion continues until the…