Recently, Japanese universities started moving away from liberal arts and social sciences, sending global “shivers down academic spines.” The official reason given was a need to focus on disciplines more needed by society. There’s been considerable self-examination about the direction of science at the highest levels, including in recent editorials in top science journal Nature. That’s a good sign: we can’t fix
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College officials should be praised when they curtail wasteful spending, but when they cut the budget by eliminating core educational programs, they deserve public scorn. That scorn should be heightened if at the same time they’re scrimping on valuable education, they’re putting lots of money into luxury amenities for students. While many colleges across America
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Director Tyler Perry has a new show that that debuted on TLC last night, but what caught most people’s attention is the color of many cast members. Perry, BET reports, is taking heat for the number of white actors in the show, which is called Tyler Perry’s Too Close to Home. Unfortunately, the show is
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America has never been regarded as the cultural hub of Western civilization. It has never really shaken the perception that it is Europe’s less-refined child in the realms of intellect and the arts. However, as British author Theodore Dalrymple argues in his article “Suicide of the West”, Europe is no longer in a position to
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Oddly enough in our hyper-cynical society, there seems to be little questioning about underlying goals of some of the #BlackLivesMatter protests and related on-campus activism. Not to worry, Tom Wolfe did the job, pulling back the curtain for us way back in 1970. That’s probably a good thing since there probably aren’t any authors who
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