The notion that there is a crisis in academia, and the ensuing desperate calls for reform, are as old as institutional education itself. From Plato’s Republic, to Rousseau’s Emile, down to
A Christian missionary working in Turkey, J.K. Marsden, described the roundup of Armenians in the town of Merzifon in the summer of 1915: They were in groups of four with their arms tied
In The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity (Encounter Books, 2018), Daniel J. Mahoney confronts a central heresy of our age, the “remarkably truncated view of
Oberlin University is paying the price of political correctness. The university complied with a court order to post a $36 million bond after an Ohio court ruled against the university in a
I often notice that whenever we talk about faith and business, the discussion is mostly about businessmen and their faith. But what about women who seek to live a life of holiness in
Figures like the Jewish scholar Philo of Alexandria (25 B.C.–A.D. 50) moved comfortably between the Hellenic and Jewish worlds. A member of a priestly family, Philo was also a Roman citizen
In 2016, students at Yale University called on the university to “decolonize” a reading list of canonical poets – people such as Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, and so on – saying the
In June 2019, Democratic presidential candidate and current Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a plan for eliminating $1.6 trillion dollars in student loans currently held by about 45
The current student loan crisis is a perfect, yet dismal example of policy gone wrong. It is right and good to desire the best life for our children, and for some that includes a traditional
A collection of short essays by Acton writers, click a link to jump to that article: Importing drugs from Canada won’t reduce U.S. drug prices by Joe Carter Walmart: Corruption’s causes and
This issue of Religion & Liberty focuses on higher education in all its fulness. Two statistics throw the college tuition crisis into stark relief: Since 1978 – the year the federal
As far as I am concerned, the classic Godfather saga remains incomplete with only two installments. The alleged third one is remarkable only in how unremarkable it is, and when my boxed set