In 2007, a report by the Committee on Intellectual Life painted a disheartening picture of academic life at Georgetown, replete with grade inflation and a general lack of intellectual vigor. A new ...

A late-night visit to Lauinger Library anytime during the next couple of weeks will reveal mobs of students working hard. Students studying intensely. Alone. I’m interested in the last: the ...

About a century ago, the term “man of letters” was in Britain replaced by “intellectual.” Daniel Johnson examines the difference between the two, and what that difference says about the state of the ...

Yet philanthropic interventions are no less democratic than any other ways in which a university is governed. Indeed, academia is rife with impositions from non-intellectuals. Singling out donors for ...

What a time to be an academic: Aggressive forms of surveillance and discipline, institutions crumbling or bending the knee to the current administration, artificial intelligence (AI) destroying ...

The Evangelical Theological Society has its first female president. But what about intellectual life for women in the pews? It would be easy to turn this conversation into a lament over the doors ...

Roosevelt Montás is an outspoken advocate for a humanistic liberal arts education rooted in transformative texts, particularly the Great Books tradition. As director of Columbia’s Center for the Core ...