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  • ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is not a Romance

    ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is not a Romance0

    Romeo and Juliet is not the only Shakespeare play that the modern world, modern critics and modern teachers get wrong. Truth be told, Shakespeare abuse is rampant. Just about every play is being mistaught and misrepresented. Romeo and Juliet is, however, taught more often than most, probably more often than any other of the Bard’s

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  • Why Grad Rates are Meaningless

    Why Grad Rates are Meaningless0

    In a recent Intellectual Takeout piece, Daniel Lattier pointed out that colleges are now having to deal with incoming “book virgins”. To gain admittance to college in the 17th century, students had to be able to read and translate various Latin authors on sight. 100 years ago, students were required to have read various classical works

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  • C.S. Lewis’ theory on why so many modern marriages fail

    C.S. Lewis’ theory on why so many modern marriages fail0

    The last several years have seen a rise in articles sounding alarms about the decline of marriage. A Salon article and its accompanying graph from earlier in the summer are a perfect example. According to Salon, marriage rates have dropped roughly 30 percent since 1980, to 6.9 per 1,000 people, and everything from religious decline

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  • Salaries for College Presidents Are Swelling

    Salaries for College Presidents Are Swelling0

    In a typical week, I get four or five inquiries from media relating to some higher education issue. Five years ago, perhaps five or ten percent of those inquiries related to university executive compensation, especially the salaries of presidents. Now, probably 40-50 percent of the queries are on that topic. The public is increasingly interested

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  • The American Republic and the Long Shadow of Rome

    The American Republic and the Long Shadow of Rome0

    “Beware the Ides of March!” Thus the soothsayer warned Emperor Julius Caesar on the 15th of March, 44 B.C. On that day, Caesar, who had overturned the Roman republic and made himself a tyrant, was assassinated by a group of Senators, including his friend, Brutus. In the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, the Senators begin

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  • Should we model ourselves on Sir Mick Jagger?

    Should we model ourselves on Sir Mick Jagger?2

    For most of the time I live in a bubble of sanity, comfortably cushioned from the malaise that seems all consuming in the wider culture. Occasionally, however, I leave my comfortable bubble to travel to speaking engagements and conferences. When I do so, I’m struck by how bad things really are. This was brought home

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