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  • What the Founding Fathers Got Wrong

    What the Founding Fathers Got Wrong0

    By any objective standard, it would be difficult to claim that the Constitution really matters at any practical level in the United States. At a symbolic level, it still means a great deal. But, what a disconnect: that it matters so much in our minds and language but that it means nothing in our day-to-day

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  • 10 Insults from Ancient Rome (in English and Latin)

    10 Insults from Ancient Rome (in English and Latin)0

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  • What Ivy League Students Were Studying 250 Years Ago

    What Ivy League Students Were Studying 250 Years Ago1

    • July 20, 2016

    Here is the curriculum for Columbia University (“King’s College” at the time) in 1763. As you look through this list, keep in mind that the average age of the first-year student was fifteen! First Year Sallust, Historia Caesar, Commentaries Ovid, Metamorphoses Virgil, Eclogues Aesop, Fables Lucian, Dialogues ?New Testament Grotius, De Veritate Latin Grammar Greek Grammar English & Latin Themes Cornelius Nepos

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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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  • Exchange Student: Chinese campus more tolerant than NYU

    Exchange Student: Chinese campus more tolerant than NYU0

    Ella Reider said she didn’t quite know what to expect prior to her study abroad in the People’s Republic of China. Reider, a Global Liberal Studies major at NYU who recently completed her sophomore year, is spending the year immersing herself in Chinese culture and learning the nation’s language at NYU-Shanghai, a portal campus the

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  • Why Can’t People Disagree Without Taking Things So Damn Personally?

    Why Can’t People Disagree Without Taking Things So Damn Personally?0

    • July 20, 2016

    Many in our audience express dismay about people not being able to discuss hot-button issues – politics, religion, race, sexuality – without it devolving into anger and name-calling. Why is it that people can’t have a disagreement without taking things so damn personally? Well, one obvious reason is human nature. Our positions on controversial topics

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