I teach at Duke University, probably one of the best private institutions of higher education in the United States. Regardless of Duke’s exalted reputation, now elevated Colloquy: Join an online ...

As America ages, the specter of cognitive decline looms. In a 2012 AARP membership survey, 87 percent of respondents said they were extremely or very concerned about “staying mentally sharp.” As there ...

About a century ago, the term “man of letters” was in Britain replaced by “intellectual.” Daniel Johnson examines the difference between the two, and what that difference says about the state of the ...

Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Princeton University Press) was written before the coronavirus pandemic, before the killing of George Floyd. But its author -- Zena Hitz ...

THE intellectual life of less self-conscious ages than ours has had no independent existence. Men have sought some other primary purpose, and given to philosophy, to poetry, to story-telling, only ...

The Evangelical Theological Society has its first female president. But what about intellectual life for women in the pews? It would be easy to turn this conversation into a lament over the doors ...

For four centuries at least, from the Council of Trent (1565) to Vatican II (1965), the Society of Jesus — better known as the Jesuits — dominated the spiritual and intellectual life of the Church.