Last week, The Voice and THE HOYA (“GU Investigates Academic Culture,” Aug. 31, 2007, A1) published a link to the report of the Committee on Intellectual Life. That leak has certainly sparked some ...

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 ...

In the public imagination, the word “professor” evokes a variety of stereotypes: pedants, ideologues, bookworms and socially inept eggheads, among others. There’s: These portrayals, while exaggerated ...

Yet philanthropic interventions are no less democratic than any other ways in which a university is governed. Indeed, academia is rife with impositions from non-intellectuals. Singling out donors for ...

Roosevelt Montás is an outspoken advocate for a humanistic liberal arts education rooted in transformative texts, particularly the Great Books tradition. As director of Columbia’s Center for the Core ...

The Evangelical Theological Society has its first female president. But what about intellectual life for women in the pews? It would be easy to turn this conversation into a lament over the doors ...