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A Passionate Defense of Libertarianism

The long, unhappy life of Saul Bellow

On the novelist’s flaws, foibles & fallings-out.

Friedrich Nietzsche Was Not the Inspiration for the Left

Why the Chinese Are Reading Plato, Aristotle, and… Leo Strauss?

How Much Lower Can Higher Education Sink?

It is hard to say, but likely a lot lower still. I recently came across this excellent description of the problem: All over the United States one finds colleges in trouble. From reading the papers one would think these troubles are purely financial; they are that too, of course, but at times the financial troubles get undue attention simply because they are easier to discuss than that sickness of soul

The Quintessential Institutionalist

How to debate BDS on campus? Jonathan Marks says be reasonable

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Illustrative: During 'Israel Apartheid Week' at Columbia University, pro-Israel students counter anti-Israel displays with a 12-foot-high Pinocchio doll meant to call attention to “lies about Israel,” March 1, 2016. (Courtesy Students Supporting Israel – Columbia) Jonathan Marks’s Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education shows what higher education can be at its best. But his subtitle has it wrong. Marks may be a conservative, and he may want to sway his fellow conservatives the most, but his argument is universal, and that’s the beauty of it. 

Classics Worth Studying — Here's Why | National Review

The Parthenon at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. (anyaivanova/Getty Images) One classical scholar believes that the field is too implicated in ‘whiteness’ to survive as-is. Here’s why he’s wrong. Rachel Poser’s recent New York Times profile of Princeton classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta comes across as both glib and ominous. Referring to Padilla’s mission, the headline of the piece reads: “He Wants to Save Classics from Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?” The Herculean task Padilla has in mind is convincing other classicists to reject the privileged position given to Greece and Rome within the field. Why? Because he believes that classics as a discipline has played and continues to play an outsize role in the construction of whiteness and, thus, the perpetuation of systemic racism.