No longer moderating influences, universities have become breeding grounds for conservative firebrands.

The administration faced a conservative court that has insisted that government initiatives with major political and economic consequences be clearly authorized by Congress.

A bullying threat to Chapel Hill’s trustees over the new School of Civic Life and Leadership may get a higher review

This is college athletics in the 21st century: Glittering with commercialism on the surface, with all the slimy parts oozing underneath.

The University of Richmond removed a slave-owning benefactor’s name from its law school, infuriating his descendants. It’s a familiar debacle that illustrates the pervasive effects of culture war politics.

Tensions between core values must be tested case by case.