Jefferson
The Lawn is a UNESCO World Heritage site and the physical argument for what Jefferson thought a university was. How UVA treats it, and how it talks about him, is not a side issue.
Colleges Should Compete on Free Speech
by James A. BaconThe U.S. News & World-Report ranking of best U.S. colleges and universities is coming under assault from the left on the grounds that the publication’s methodology gives insufficient weight…
Who Guides the Guides?
by James A. BaconIn the spring of 2022 University of Virginia alumnus Warren Lightfoot emailed Rector Whitt Clement, a fraternity brother, to share the experiences of a friend and friend’s daughter during…
“The Worst Tour of the 14 Colleges We Have Been on This Year”
by James A. BaconThis past April a University of Virginia alumna took her son for a tour of the university conducted by a student-run organization, the University Guide Service. The woman had…