Alan Jacobs

Reading works from the past can offer perspective—even when they say things we don’t want to hear.

A term that once described a vital tradition within the Christian faith now means something else entirely.

Even if the secular left has no intention of playing fair in the culture wars, that doesn’t erase the Christian imperatives of civility and decency.

Increasing the ideological diversity of higher education as a whole, while decreasing it within individual institutions, would bring us closer to a fundamental and permanent political separation.

Here’s what I’ve learned so far.

Training students to be attentive and discriminating in their use of sources is difficult and time-consuming. It is enormously tempting to say “just use Project Muse and JSTOR articles” and be done with it.

Twitter may scale up better as a vehicle of information than as one of conversation.