David Randall

Judge Beryl A. Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently ruled that the U.S. Department of Education must use a broader definition of “professional degrees” when determining eligibility for federal student loans. Practically, this means that students in a broad array of professions will have looser loan limits: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (2025) limited “graduate students” to borrowing $20,500 per

Three-year bachelor's degrees could reduce costs and expose how colleges have evolved into credentialing institutions rather than centers of learning.

The White House science agenda shares many of the National Association of Scholars' priorities—but not all of them.

The NSF's new doctoral program hints at a future in which industry plays a much larger role in training researchers.

Students need the knowledge to grasp what they study and the perspective to judge its place and importance.

Stuart Reges won a major free-speech victory, but deeper-pocketed universities need penalties that actually deter misconduct.

Colleges and universities are making consequential, possibly permanent choices under conditions of deep uncertainty.

Most liberal churches either never had an evening service or have given it up long ago, but today some evangelical churches have given up evening worship and others are considering doing so. I well remember being on holiday in a part of the country that we don't know well and on the Sunday evening, my family and I looked in vain for an evening service to attend.

Professors should be teaching broad surveys of history, literature, and philosophy.

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