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 ...

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 few weeks ago, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed delivered a lecture on the role of intellectuals in society as part of the celebrations marking Addis Ababa University's 75th anniversary. Delivered within ...

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 ...

This study is an attempt to reconstruct the intellectual life of the Crimean Jewish communities (both Rabbanite and Karaite) from the Middle Ages to early modern times in their wide cultural context.