Culture & Civilization

What is it about royalty that so fascinates everyone else? In case you spent the weekend on the backside of the moon, Prince Harry, grandson of...

Peruse the front page of the Chronicle of Higher Education, a publication geared toward “people in academe,” and you will be confronted primarily with issues affecting...

Drive down Massachusetts Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares in the tony, hyper-educated city of Cambridge, and you will spot two handsome Episcopal churches located...

History usually moves along in incremental steps. A policy change here, a new election there, and the world gradually changes. So breakpoints, when the world...

A study conducted by the Knight Foundation and Gallup examining matriculated students’ views on free speech was broadcast across mainstream media outlets with an unmistakably triumphant...

When the left refers to their political opponents as fascists, it’s nothing new. Even in the placid 1990s, I recall, a friend of mine referred...

Thousands of column inches have been devoted to the closing of the conservative mind lately, and for good reason. A movement that once admired the...

In the late 1980s, numerous colleges and universities designed and adopted speech codes to curtail racist and other discriminatory speech. You can't say they weren’t...

Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson was found dead at his apartment in Berlin over the weekend, and police are still investigating the cause. He was 48. Jóhannsson's...

If you believe what the papers have been saying for some time, American high school students don’t know much about much. They don’t know, among...

What is it with the Harvard Kennedy School's penchant for celebrating dishonorable characters? First came a speaking invitation and fellowship for the traitor formerly known...