book reviews Archives — Minding The Campus

June 15, 2026

The Anglosphere’s Education Crisis

Bella d’Abrera’s Mindless shows how leftist activism has transformed schools across Australia, Britain, and the United States.
June 1, 2026

Whatever Happened to World Literature?

The Guardian’s literary elite celebrates diversity while narrowing the literary canon.
May 29, 2026

Techies Without Virtue

Theo Baker’s How to Rule the World depicts Stanford as a playground for future tech oligarchs.
March 20, 2026

The Rich and Higher Education

Wealthy donors may be the last check on ideological conformity in universities.
March 9, 2026

The Scientists Who Declared War on Half of America

Michael Mann and Peter Hotez call scientists into a partisan fight.
March 9, 2026

A Missional Classroom

A Christian chemistry professor offers a formula for reaching Generation Z in the college classroom.
March 4, 2026

A Cancelled Professor Wrote a Thriller

After being driven out of academia, Scott Gerber turned his legal insight into a thriller drawn from the darkest corners of modern crime.
February 6, 2026

Can Civic Education Be Saved Without Saving Education?

James Traub’s “The Cradle of Citizenship” perceptively documents the collapse of reading in public schools but underestimates how politicized pedagogy makes meaningful civic education reform unlikely
February 6, 2026

Gatsby Warned Us About Party Culture

Campus party culture and the emptiness beneath the glamour.
February 2, 2026

Anti-Semitism and the Character of America

Pamela Nadell’s new book blames the country, not higher education, for the current rise of Jew-hatred.
January 27, 2026

“Science Under Siege” Under Siege

Michael Mann and Peter Hotez fight an imaginary war on science.
December 31, 2025

Books for the Year Ahead

Recommendations from our team.
November 5, 2025

The Case for a Creator, Backed by Science
October 15, 2025

SEL and the Surveillance of the American Mind
October 8, 2025

Ten Books That Influenced This Economist
September 16, 2025

What Holds the West Together?
September 6, 2025

The Inimitable Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
August 6, 2025

Catholic Scholar Schools Universities on Faith, Facts, and Falsehoods
August 1, 2025

Helen Lewis’s Dumb Attack on Smart People
July 22, 2025

Trey Yingst Can’t Bring Himself to Condemn Hamas
July 14, 2025

David Eltis Recovers the Complex, Global Truth Behind the Atlantic Slave Trade
July 10, 2025

Weaponized Science Needs a Reckoning—CEI Offers One
June 21, 2025

Licensing’s Quiet Tyranny—and the Credentialed Class Behind It
June 9, 2025

Vedder’s Case for Creative Destruction