The student-led Carter G. Woodson Society is a Black affinity group focused on a legacy of intelligence and high academic achievement.

There’s a popular meme about over-analysis in English class referring to the hypothetical text ‘the curtains were blue.’ The joke goes that the English teacher would pontificate about these colored ...

Mike: I have to admit that I’m not comfortable saying that there is an anti-intellectual tendency in American life. Intellectuals have always been Mike: I have to admit that I’m not comfortable saying ...

ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM! OK, that was cheap, but I'm glad I got it out of the way. Now you know what I'm going to write about. I've been somewhat infamous since an editorial I wrote last year, ...

The phenomenal rise of Donald Trump has alarmed many observers over the revival of anti-intellectualism in American society. But America is not the only country that is being afflicted by ...

MDAH Announces 2026 Religion in Mississippi History Research Fellow   Vanderbilt PhD candidate Zachary Clary will research African American intellectualism and protest strategy during the Civil Rights ...

If anything has been a constant this season for Oregon softball, it’s ace Lyndsey Grein shoving in the circle. She hurled another complete... Oregon women’s basketball head coach Kelly Graves walked ...

The tragedy in Charleston last week will no doubt lead to more discussion of several important and recurring issues in American culture—particularly racism and gun violence—but these dialogues are ...

I spent much of high school trying not to be interested in ideas. I studied hard and made good grades, but I didn’t hang out with the nerds. This was partly because hanging out with nerds wasn’t cool ...

The late Gore Vidal once confessed, with characteristic rapier wit, “I love stupidity. It excites me.” But the excitement and hilarity of human foibles and failures diminish rapidly when the ...