A late-night visit to Lauinger Library anytime during the next couple of weeks will reveal mobs of students working hard. Students studying intensely. Alone. I’m interested in the last: the ...

About a century ago, the term “man of letters” was in Britain replaced by “intellectual.” Daniel Johnson examines the difference between the two, and what that difference says about the state of the ...

A major contribution of the Council of Trent was the seminary system, whereby young men were trained to become priests through specialized courses in public speaking, philosophy, and theology. (Before ...

ONE of the chief services of education is to show us our position in the line of historical development, to make us aware of what has been done, and to give a true point of departure. The educated man ...

Anna is a brand-new doctoral student, and she has been looking forward to returning to academe after being away for a few years. She has thought a lot about her research and teaching interests and is ...

THE intellectual life of less self-conscious ages than ours has had no independent existence. Men have sought some other primary purpose, and given to philosophy, to poetry, to story-telling, only ...

What a time to be an academic: Aggressive forms of surveillance and discipline, institutions crumbling or bending the knee to the current administration, artificial intelligence (AI) destroying ...

How higher ed can bring back the life of the mind—where knowledge is more than a means to an end. In the public imagination, the word “professor” evokes a variety of stereotypes: pedants, ideologues, ...

In a seemingly unlikely time, author discusses the relevance of her book on "the hidden pleasures of an intellectual life." Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Princeton ...