CONTNUING his ongoing examination of the decline of standards in higher education, Thomas F. Bertonneau, in an article for the John Pope Williams Center for Higher Education Policy, looks at the dumbing-down of the college course syllabus, which now must include detailed instructions and a thorough justification for the act of reading assigned books. He calls it ”The Amazing [...]

  COL. JOHN W. RIPLEY of the U.S. Marines Corps was famous for his acts of bravery in the Viet Nam War. The story of Ripley’s efforts to blow up a bridge under enemy fire is legendary.  In 1992, Ripley, who died in 2008, testified before the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces. His testimony, posted in its [...]

  This 19th century painting is from the collection at British Paintings, formerly Victorian/Edwardian Paintings.