Recently, a colleague inquired about how I successfully teach philosophy at a professional-minded college. As my colleague recognized, it is difficult to teach the liberal arts at a school where students embrace monetary practical values and goals. Through his query, I was reminded about how Catholics can evangelize with rhetorical mindfulness.

It may be the case that all teaching can be thought of as activism or that all research should explicitly reflect one’s ethical and political stances.

[T]he wiser we become, the less wise we feel. This is the wellspring of intellectual humility, the Socratic realization that the more you know, the more you realize you don’t know, and the more apparent it becomes that your own opinions are susceptible to fallibility.

A first-person account of an encounter with the progressive campus mob.

A new poll of college presidents finds strong support for free expression on campus, and strong opposition to the tactic — seen on a number of campuses in the last year — of shouting down controversial speakers.