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Harvard Law vs. Free Inquiry
The Weekly Standard, May 17, 2010
Why Liberal Education Matters
The Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2010
Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen
The Wall Street Journal, Mar. 13, 2010
Breakdown in the Academy
A review of The Marketplace of Ideas by Louis Menand
Policy Review, Dec. 2009/Jan. 2010
Academia Goes Silent on Free Speech
The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 17, 2009
Conservatism and the University Curriculum
The Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2009
Pragmatism Obama Style
The Weekly Standard, May 4, 2009
A Contribution to "Stanley Fish and The Storm in Ottawa: Seven Professors Say What They Think"
MindingtheCampus.com, Feb. 10, 2009
Bush Hatred and Obama Euphoria Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 31, 2009
Towering Ivories
A review of Save the World on Your Own Time by Stanley Fish
The Weekly Standard, Nov. 3, 2008
Are Universities Above the Law?
The Weekly Standard, Oct. 27, 2008
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
Policy Review, Dec. 2007/Jan. 2008
Ethics 101
The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 8, 2007
Our Compassless Colleges
The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 5, 2007
The Conservative Mind
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
Essay 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.
Policy Review, Dec. 2006/Jan. 2007
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U.S. Military: 8, Elite Law Schools: 0
The Weekly Standard, Mar. 20, 2006
Summers's End
The Weekly Standard, Mar. 6, 2006
Literature in Theory
A review of Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent, eds. Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral
Policy Review, Feb./Mar., 2006
Lacking the Wisdom of Solomon
National Review Online, Dec. 5, 2005
Speaking Their Language
The Weekly Standard (online exclusive), Oct. 4, 2005
Educating the University
A review of Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus by Donald Alexander Downs
Policy Review, June/July 2005
Studying Islam, Strengthening The Nation
The Washington Post, Apr. 12, 2005
He is Charlotte Simmons
A review of I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
Policy Review, Feb./Mar. 2005
Saskia Sassen Reveals High-Handed Habits, Stifles Discussion
The Chicago Maroon, Nov. 16, 2004
The Liberal Arts in Kuwait
The Weekly Standard (online exclusive), Jan. 28, 2004
Point of View: Rules and Grievances
The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 10, 2003, p. B16
Dubious Diversity
The Weekly Standard, July 7/14, 2003, pp. 14-16
Fair Harvard
The Harvard Crimson, May 26, 1999, p. 8
Science Fiction: Postmodernism Exposed
The New Republic, July 1, 1996, pp. 15-16