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“What is a University for?”, a review of Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life, by Anthony T. Kronman, in POLICY REVIEW, Dec. 2007 and Jan. 2008 

 

“Ethics 101,” in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Oct. 8, 2007

 

“Our Compassless Colleges,” in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Sept. 5, 2007

 

“The Conservative Mind,” in the WALL STREET JOURNAL, May 29, 2007

 

“Strengthening Higher Education,” prepared for OPPORTUNITY 08:  Independent Ideas for our Next President, a project of the Brookings Institution, February 2007

 

“Liberal Education, Then and Now” (pdf), in POLICY REVIEW, Dec. 2006 and Jan. 2007 (This essay is based on a lecture originally titled “John Stuart Mill’s Idea of a University, and Our Own,” delivered at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Sept. 15, 2006, at a symposium honoring the 200th anniversary of Mill’s birth and the address on liberal education he delivered there in 1867.)

 

“U.S. Military: 8, Elite Law Schools: 0,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, March 20, 2006

 

“Summers’s End,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, March 6, 2006

 

“Literature in Theory,” a review of Theory’s Empire: An Anthology of Dissent, ed. Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral, in POLICY REVIEW, Feb. and March, 2006 

 

“Lacking the Wisdom of Solomon,” in NRO, Dec. 5, 2005

 

“Speaking their Language,” online at THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Oct. 4, 2005

 

“Educating the University,” a review of Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus, by Donald Alexander Downs, in POLICY REVIEW, June and July 2005

 

“Studying Islam, Strengthening The Nation,” in THE WASHINGTON POST, April 12, 2005

 

“He is Charlotte Simmons,” a review of I am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe, in POLICY REVIEW, Feb. and March 2005

“Saskia Sassen Reveals High-Handed Habits, Stifles Discussion,” in the Chicago Maroon, Nov. 16, 2004

“The Liberal Arts in Kuwait,” online only in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Jan. 28, 2004

“Point of View: Rules and Grievances,” in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, October 10, 2003, p. B16

“Dubious Diversity,” in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, July 7 and July 14, 2003, pp. 14-16

“Fair Harvard,” in the HARVARD CRIMSON, May 26, 1999, p. 8

“Science Fiction: Postmodernism Exposed,” in THE NEW REPUBLIC, July 1, 1996, pp. 15-16