Frederick Douglass's "What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?" remains the most important speech ever given on July Fourth.  It is worth reading in its entirety, but especially--for people...

Young adult attachment to religion continues to be a really rich area of study, though one that many scholars don't seem to attend to nearly as much as they should.  We've known for some time that...

A somewhat light piece in the Chronicle of Higher Ed (occasionally they do deeper dives, but sometimes it's more coverage than analysis, as in this case, and that's fine) explores the tensions of...

This worries me in a number of ways.  At the beginning of the twentieth century, American education was really quite advanced, compared to other industrialized nations.  Even today, American higher...