In 1998, the famed sociobiologist and naturalist Edward O. Wilson published Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. As suggested by the subtitle, "consilience" refers to a unified picture of human ...

This post is addressed to the folks on U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ staff. During the recent 2023 Essence Festival of Culture, the Vice President was asked how she defined “culture.” Here is her ...

Imagine I told you in 1970 that I was going to invent a wondrous tool. This new tool would make it possible for anyone with access — and most of humanity would have access — to quickly communicate and ...

For more than 130 years, the arts and humanities at the University of Chicago have played an important role in the evolution of those fields in America and across all of higher education. It is a ...

In crafting its new college-ranking system, City Journal has made the unusual—but, we believe, wise—choice to reward ...

What are the end points of our disciplines—and when, if ever, could we be done? Seth Rudy and Rachael Scarborough King argue these are questions worth asking. Recent discourse has taken a pessimistic ...

When everyone in academe agrees on something, you’ve got to be worried. The university is a famously noisy kennel, and if you propose X, you’ll always hear barks from those watchdogs who strongly ...

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.