Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from the author’s latest book, DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con of the Century Almost Toppled Higher Education. It has been edited to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and is cross-posted here with permission. One of the best assessments of the popular racialist fictioneer Ta-Nehisi Coates was delivered […]
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Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on April 9, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Since the 1997 founding of Western Governors University (WGU), a private, nonprofit institution developed to pioneer so-called competency-based education (CBE), a growing number of […]
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This essay has two parts. The first part painted a collective portrait of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) staff through the books they recommended for others. Here, I offer personal thoughts on what should constitute common reading for those who, like me, believe our society would thrive if more of us engaged with a […]
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This essay has two parts. First, it offers a collective portrait of the people who work for the National Association of Scholars (NAS) through the lens of the books they think other people should read. Whether that portrait will interest a broader audience, I don’t know, but it interests me not just because the seventeen […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on The College Fix on April 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. A University of Cincinnati professor has more money from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a transgender voice training app. The National […]
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Moments of faith are not always somber and public. Often, they are funny and reveal God’s loving smirk. Once, when studying koine Greek for my doctorate in theology, I came across a bad computer translation of the New Testament that rendered the Greek word for the Gospel, “evangelion,” (εὐαγγέλιον) as “valid data stream.” During the […]
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