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  • ‘Vital Campus Dialogue is Being Snuffed Out’

    ‘Vital Campus Dialogue is Being Snuffed Out’0

    In a new mini documentary produced by We The Internet, former Brown University student Rob Montz visits his alma mater to ask an increasingly relevant question: “Is the university killing free speech and open debate?” In the course of the documentary, Montz details recent instances of student activism on the Brown campus, many of which

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  • Who Said It: Famous Philosopher Or Disney Character?

    Who Said It: Famous Philosopher Or Disney Character?0

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  • When Religious Freedom and Gender Equality Collide

    When Religious Freedom and Gender Equality Collide0

    What happens when religious freedom affronts feminist sensibility? The question came to the fore earlier this month when female teachers at a high school in Germany boycotted the school’s graduation ceremony in protest at the refusal of a male Muslim student to shake hands with a female teacher on the grounds of modesty. Although the

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  • Oxford Scholar: A Remedy for the Decline of Knowledge

    Oxford Scholar: A Remedy for the Decline of Knowledge0

    When I was 9, I somehow ended up in a grade school musical entitled Tracers of Lost Parts of Speech. The play used a mild mystery format peppered with songs to teach young children about nouns, adverbs, prepositions, and their many other blood relatives. While I enjoyed being in the play, my 4th grade friends

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  • Middle School Reading Lists 100 Years Ago vs. Today

    Middle School Reading Lists 100 Years Ago vs. Today5

    I recently dug up a 1908 curriculum manual in the Minnesota Historical Society archives. It provided instructions on everything from teacher deportment to recommended literature lists for various grades. As a book lover, I was especially interested in the latter! With the exception of a few textbook-like anthologies, the chart below lists the recommended reading material for

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  • James Madison on the Separation of Church and State

    James Madison on the Separation of Church and State1

    It’s not unusual to witness discussions on the topic of whether or not the United States was founded “as a Christian nation.” (Or, worded slightly differently, whether or not America had a Christian founding.) The answer to this question depends largely on semantics. On one hand, the Founding Fathers were overwhelmingly Christian and built a

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