On Classical and Civic Education

The American Mind , August 15, 2025   Andrew Beck argues that America needs to revive the ideal of assimilation if our country is to...

First Things , June 23, 2025 The research pursued these days in university humanities departments does not, as a rule, enjoy high esteem...

Law and Liberty , May 15, 2025 The first hundred days of the second Trump presidency have brought unprecedented challenges to the...

The Wall Street Journal , April 24, 2025 In recent reports about the Trump administration’s assault on Harvard, the statistic is often...

Compact , January 15, 2025   During its annual meeting earlier this month, the American Historical Association, the oldest and most...

Law and Liberty , November 21, 2024   The policies of the incoming administration with regard to the federal role in education, despite a...

Law & Liberty, October 17, 2024 As Election Day approaches, I’ve been listening, though as little as possible, to our candidates for...

Law & Liberty, September 11, 2024 When confronted with confusing or appalling new events—and the last few years have surely had plenty of...

First Things , September 10, 2024 I have to admit to a tendency for my eyes to glaze over when people talk about a crisis in the...

Law & Liberty, June 3, 2024 Harvard has had a very bad year. It began last summer with the Supreme Court’s verdict in Students for Fair...

Law & Liberty, March 18, 2024 Tacitus at the beginning of his Annals , after brilliantly summarizing all of Roman history in the space...

The Harvard Crimson , January 29, 2024 If you are a Harvard undergraduate, the question in my title might not be top of mind. In the...

The Wall Street Journal, December 27, 2023 Claudine Gay, the president of my university, is under attack for academic dishonesty. She is...

First Things, November 15, 2023 Recently a book of mine underwent a perplexing treatment in the New York Review of Books. Normally one is...

Law & Liberty, November 2, 2023 Harvard, which FIRE recently ranked near the bottom for academic freedom among leading US universities,...

Public Discourse, August 3, 2023 We need to study history as a subject in its own right, acquiring a deep appreciation for the story of...

The Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2023 In my 38 years teaching at Harvard, I have only twice met members of Harvard’s governing boards,...

Law & Liberty, May 30, 2023 When most Americans hear the expression “liberal conservative,” they think of it as an oxymoron at best, at...

Law & Liberty, November 14, 2022 Quick, who do you think wrote the following? To use the classroom … as a sort of ersatz political...

Law & Liberty, July 20, 2022 The Civics Alliance has just published, in time for the Fourth of July, its American Birthright , a model...