curriculum Archives — Minding The Campus

September 24, 2026

WATCH: Teaching Through Testimony

Daniel Di Martino joins Café Berlin to discuss how firsthand accounts of communism can shape students’ understanding of socialism and freedom.
September 7, 2026

WATCH: Rethinking How Universities Study Terrorism

Anne Bradley makes the case for bringing economics into the academic study of political violence.
September 2, 2026

What Should Universities Teach?

Students need the knowledge to grasp what they study and the perspective to judge its place and importance.
August 31, 2026

WATCH: What Is Freedom For?

Stephanie Slade discusses whether colleges can teach a new generation the ideas that sustain a free society.
August 28, 2026

Truth Before Method

A reply to Rob Jenkins on why critical thinking cannot stand apart from truth.
August 24, 2026

We Should Teach Students How to Think

A response to Kate Bierly’s “Don’t Teach Students ‘How to Think,’ Teach Them What Is True.”
August 24, 2026

Remediation Can’t Fix UC’s Admissions Problem

Summer bridge programs are no substitute for merit, standards, and academic preparedness.
August 24, 2026

WATCH: What Are Business Schools Really Teaching?

I joined a new podcast for a conversation about business schools, financialization, and the downwardly mobile.
August 20, 2026

WATCH: America Needs a New Generation of Strategic Thinkers

Seth Cropsey on what universities must teach about maritime power, alliances, and great-power competition.
July 24, 2026

Don’t Teach Students ‘How to Think,’ Teach Them What Is True

Critical thinking cannot preserve liberty without a foundation in truth.
July 15, 2026

Don’t Water Down the Bachelor’s Degree

Students can earn a bachelor’s degree in three years without reducing academic standards.
July 15, 2026

Three Years or Four?

Virginia and Ohio’s proposal has reopened a long-simmering debate over the cost, purpose, and value of the bachelor’s degree.
July 15, 2026

Three-Year Degrees Expose the Truth

By shortening the bachelor’s degree, Ohio and Virginia expose the credentialing system born in the wake of a half-century-old Supreme Court decision.
July 15, 2026

The Fourth Year Is on Trial

If colleges can’t prove a fourth year is worth the cost, states should keep cutting.
June 29, 2026

The Great Books Are for Passing On Our Stories

The first task of a Great Books curriculum is to teach the stories that shaped Western civilization.
June 23, 2026

The Philosophy That Broke Education

John Dewey’s vision of social reform changed what schools teach and why they teach it.
June 17, 2026

Against the Boneless Wonders

The purpose of civics education is not merely to teach citizens how government works, but to cultivate the courage to defend the republic.
April 28, 2026

A Better Model for Teaching English Language Arts

The Cather Standards provide a content rich approach that can restore literacy in American schools.
April 13, 2026

Florida Gets Sociology Wrong

Dropping it from the core curriculum marginalizes conservative sociologists and weakens the field.
April 10, 2026

We Need to Teach Public Speaking

Colleges give too little attention to public speaking, leaving students unprepared for careers that demand strong communication skills
March 19, 2026

Bring Back Mentorships

Only sustained relationships with experienced faculty can form students’ judgment, character, and sense of purpose.
March 18, 2026

A Firsthand Look at Anti-Racism’s Takeover of Writing Instruction

In composition programs, ideological indoctrination is crowding out the one thing that should matter: teaching students to write.
March 9, 2026

An America First Language Curriculum

Foreign language education is a tool of soft power—America should use it to advance its own ideals.
December 23, 2025

History Without Dogma

Why serious professors don’t need ideological frameworks to teach race and racism.
August 19, 2025

Empathizing with History’s Worst Is Hard. But a Quality Education Was Never Meant to Be Easy
July 21, 2025

Turns Out My Students Know More About Social Media Than I Do