Schools that Used to Favor Openness are Becoming Closed and Dogmatic When it Comes to Traditional Religious Groups

Not long ago, the university was seen as a world apart—an idyllic enclave where our studious youth learned the virtues of citizenship, cheered hard for the football team, and read the great classics of Western thought. The “ivory tower” was more an observation than the insult the term has become, an almost monastic reference to a place where thought was free and knowledge ruled. Nostalgia, of course, is deceptive-life was rarely as good (or bad) as we remember. However, nearly... Continue Reading