Don't put down "The Great Gatsby" just yet. One of the casualties of the Great Recession has been the liberal arts. As people have less money to spend, college has been increasingly viewed as a luxury ...

This semester Loyola University Maryland, where I teach, sponsored a weekend symposium on “Democracy and the Humanities.” The occasion was the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of ...

We just put our biannual edition of Mosaic Magazine to bed – or have gone to press, as they say in publishing circles — and in reviewing the final version, I couldn’t help but notice the parallels ...