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 2007, a report by the Committee on Intellectual Life painted a disheartening picture of academic life at Georgetown, replete with grade inflation and a general lack of intellectual vigor. A new ...

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 ...

For more than a year, Johns Hopkins University and the American Enterprise Institute—a leading center-right think tank based in Washington, D.C.—have been building bridges to facilitate collaborative ...

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 ...

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 ...

A multi-part event coordinated by the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life brought “Sinners” to life with dance ...

The difficulty in explaining one’s love for another person, in the falling in love sense, is rivaled only by trying to write about it. There is a strange infinity to love; endlessly falling, a ...