Top-down Parental Involvement
Athens, Ga.
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.
Athens, Ga.
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…
Speaking Up
Delicate Edible Birds
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.