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The Case for Educational Retrenchment

Herbert London

It is virtually axiomatic in higher education circles that the more money spent on the educational enterprise…

Religion in the Unheavenly City

Roger Starr

Half a mile, not more, separates 50th Street and Park Avenue in central Manhattan from the northwest…

The Decline and Fall of the Christian College

James Tunstead Burtchaell

Every one shall consider the main End of his life and studies, to know God and Jesus…

Careless Flying

Luci Shaw

I I have been considering the ravens, who live without worrying and have no bins or barns…

The Theses of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Editors

News stories of recent months underscore the fact that the place of Martin Luther King, Jr. in…

The Do-It-Yourself Catholic KiddieKism*

Paul V. Mankowski

Q. Who made you?  A. (Melissa Murphy, Age 10): Who makes me you should say! I co-creates me…

Mueca a la Muerte: Defiance in a Grimace

Anthony Kerrigan

That the world should end in an orgy of pain was inconceivable at my conception in the Panama…

Honor in the University

Stanley Hauerwas

We live in a time when ethics has become big business: medical schools hire medical ethicists, business…

The Death of Religious Higher Education

The Editors

From time to time, a set of concerns reaches something like a critical mass. Familiar discontents vaguely…

When Families Fail

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Perhaps the most striking feature of our contemporary political landscape is the failure of the tattered labels…

The Soul of the American University

George M. Marsden

Our subject is one of those peculiar phenomena taken for granted in the contemporary world but which…

Postcard to a Friend in Tuscany

Christopher Yu

Charlottesville, 9:00 A.M.For once, snow; its drapery everywhere Like the pure wool of midnight, The thoughtless swooning of a…

Out of the Fire and Into the Frying Pan

Stephen Arons

Politics, Markets, & America’s Schools by john e. chubb and terry m. moe brookings institution, 336 pages,…

Office Plaza, Sunday Morning

Ed Harbin

The blue garage can be itself again.The cars have gonedown roads no live things dareto run. Machines…

Notes on the Culture Wars

Richard John Neuhaus

Almost nobody wants to be called a prude and reactionary, a bluenose puritan and spoilsport. It would…