University Diaries

I'd like to reflect on a couple of passages from Mark Lilla's The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics. Modernization would...

I had glancing, and wounding, encounters with Christopher Lasch in the early 'eighties. He was a close friend of an...

In his short memoir, The Memory Chalet, dictated at the end of his life as he lay immobilized from motor...

Emile Durkheim, the great French sociologist, tells us that there are four kinds of suicide. None of the four really...

Contemporary Americans, wrote the philosopher Richard Rorty, are "rich fat [and] tired;" they live in an "Alexandrian" culture. Craig Brandon's...

Last June, Inside Higher Education noted a legal case against the University of Calgary, filed by two students there who...

Last week was National Suicide Prevention Week. You missed it. We know so little about suicide that people worry awareness...

Donald Light, currently Lorry Lokey Visiting Professor of Human Biology at Stanford, has presented a paper at this year's American...