Private philanthropic foundations like Ford and Rockefeller played an instrumental role in changing the practice and values of political science.
Lee Trepanier
With employment demands, assessment requirements, and skill training gone taken over by AI, what will be left for the university to do?
The Founders saw themselves as part of an intellectual tradition that predated them and as citizens of a new country that would outlive them.
What should be in today's college syllabus?
The corporatization of the American university is complete.
Dostoevsky believed that one cannot live as a full human being without a freedom that acknowledges limits in its striving towards a chosen ideal.
Maritain separated the political ideals and values of liberalism from its defective theological and philosophical systems.
Jacques Barzun’s Teacher in America illustrates the triumphs of good teaching and the failures of poor instruction.
Liberty Fund's Education in a Free Society offers a look at the promise and perils of American higher education.
While it may be a modest, middle-age virtue, civility is foundational to sustain a pluralistic liberal democracy.
Remi Brague shows how the modern person has made the human rather than nature the measure of all things.
Why not consider the crafts and trades of vocational training, the performing arts, or the service professions part of the liberal arts?
Lee Trepanier is Chair and Professor of Political Science at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is also Associate Editor for Law & Liberty and editor of Lexington Books’ series on Politics, Literature, and Film.