Writer and Education Critic

Mary Grabar

5 articles 2008–2014

Mary Grabar is a writer and educator who focuses on literature, education, and cultural criticism. She contributed essays and reviews to The Weekly Standard between 2008 and 2014, covering topics ranging from creative writing programs to African American intellectual history. She is also known for her work as a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization.

Who Was George Schuyler?

April 30, 2012 · Mary Grabar, Magazine, Books and Arts

A classics professor tells his students not to read The Republic because “only those who watch Fox News” read Plato. Another requires students to apply Latin translation assignments to the “terroristic” war policies of George W. Bush. Another professor dissuades black students from venturing into…

Talk Isn't Cheap

September 28, 2009 · Mary Grabar, Magazine, Books and Arts

Speaking Up

Workshop Lit

May 25, 2009 · Mary Grabar, Magazine, Books and Arts

Delicate Edible Birds

Boyz n the Book

October 27, 2008 · Mary Grabar, Magazine, Books and Arts

A Rip Van Winkle waking up from a 30-year nap on a college campus today would notice a strange change in the student body. Most of the students walking past him would be women.