Thoughts on Higher Education
“Forget ‘Finding Forrester’—Our Best Teaching can be Ordinary,” History News Network, May 21, 2023, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/185704
“A Common Fund of Knowledge,” Current, February 13, 2023, https://currentpub.com/2023/02/13/a-common-fund-of-knowledge/
“Another Casualty of the Academic Job Market? The Relatable Professor,” History News Network, March 5, 2023, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/185166
“Trees and the College Campus,” Perspectives, print and online, February 2022, https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/february-2023/trees-and-the-college-campus
“With Academic History in Crisis, Can Departments Pivot to Reach Interested Audiences?” History News Network, January 15, 2023 https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/184782
“Should We Burst the Campus Bubble or Balance It?” History News Network, November 20, 2022 http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/184440
“The Burden of Youth,” Front Porch Republic, November 14, 2022 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2022/11/the-burden-of-youth/
“Collegiality, Interdisciplinarity, and the Historian’s Work,” History News Network, July 31, 2022
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/183566?
“Toxic Paternalism and Ph.D. Programs, Inside Higher Ed, April 11, 2022 https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2022/04/11/advisers-should-avoid-overcontrolling-their-grad-students-opinion
“Spaces for Speech on Today’s College Campus,” Front Porch Republic, March 29, 2022 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2022/03/spaces-for-speech-on-todays-college-campus/
“Pretend It’s a Book,” Front Porch Republic, January 10, 2022 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2022/01/pretend-its-a-book/
“Universities Operating Like Businesses Seems Inevitable. Can They Choose Better Businesses to Follow?” December 5, 2021, History News Network, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/181886
“Loving Education in the Time of COVID,” October 20, 2021 Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2021/10/loving-education-in-the-time-of-covid/
“The Ivory Tower of the Imagination and Christian Alternatives,” October 19, 2021, Christian Scholars Review Blog, https://christianscholars.com/guest-post-the-ivory-tower-of-the-imagination-christian-alternatives/
Review: The Soul of the American University Revisited, August 27, 2021, Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2021/08/review-the-soul-of-the-american-university-revisited/
“Let’s Think About Thinking Before We Teach Critical Thinking,” July 4, 2021, History News Network, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/180609
“Conspiracies in the Classroom,” June 3, 2021, Inside HigherEd, https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/06/03/how-professors-must-increasingly-deal-conspiracy-minded-students-opinion
“Are Campus Bookstores Undermining Student Learning?” May 9, 2021, History News Network, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/180169
“Hidden in Plain Sight: History Teaching Needs to Take Advantage of Art and Material Culture,” January 31, 2021, History News Network, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/178964
(Review), “Should We Read the Words of the Unsavory Dead?” September 4, 2020, Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2020/09/should-we-read-the-words-of-the-unsavory-dead/
“Lives at Stake: Education in the Academic Year 2020-2021,” August 27, 2020, Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2020/08/lives-at-stake-education-in-the-academic-year-2020-2021/
“The Metamorphoses and #MeToo,” March 25, 2020, Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2020/03/the-metamorphoses-and-metoo/
“Online Learning Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be,” Front Porch Republic, January 3, 2020, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2020/01/online-learning-isnt-all-its-cracked-up-to-be/
“Reviews of The Man in the High Castle and the Misunderstanding of History,” History News Network, December 15, 2019 https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173851
“The benefits of assigning only one book in a class for an entire semester,” Inside Higher Ed, December 10, 2019 https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/12/10/benefits-assigning-only-one-book-class-entire-semester-opinion
“What Will Happen if We Lose Christian Liberal Arts Colleges?” Sojourners, June 20, 2019
https://sojo.net/articles/what-will-happen-if-we-lose-christian-liberal-arts-colleges
