In 2007, a report by the Committee on Intellectual Life painted a disheartening picture of academic life at Georgetown, replete with grade inflation and a general lack of intellectual vigor. A new ...

A late-night visit to Lauinger Library anytime during the next couple of weeks will reveal mobs of students working hard. Students studying intensely. Alone. I’m interested in the last: the ...

About a century ago, the term “man of letters” was in Britain replaced by “intellectual.” Daniel Johnson examines the difference between the two, and what that difference says about the state of the ...

A few weeks ago, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed delivered a lecture on the role of intellectuals in society as part of the celebrations marking Addis Ababa University's 75th anniversary. Delivered within ...

At the start of the school year, two professors provide some hard truths about the state of academia and what you should fight for. People rally and march in support of universities and education on ...

Yet philanthropic interventions are no less democratic than any other ways in which a university is governed. Indeed, academia is rife with impositions from non-intellectuals. Singling out donors for ...

The Evangelical Theological Society has its first female president. But what about intellectual life for women in the pews? It would be easy to turn this conversation into a lament over the doors ...

Roosevelt Montás is an outspoken advocate for a humanistic liberal arts education rooted in transformative texts, particularly the Great Books tradition. As director of Columbia’s Center for the Core ...