Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. His most recent book is Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind (Penguin, 2020). Before that he published The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2018) and How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds (Currency Books, 2017). He has published fifteen books in all, and in addition to his work for Comment has written for such publications as Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The American Scholar, and many more. After teaching at Wheaton College in Illinois for twenty-nine years, he came to Baylor in 2013.
Bio last updated April 19th, 2022.
Articles by Alan Jacobs
An Academic Farce
By Alan Jacobs
July 17, 2014
In this respect, the institutional attitude of Wheaton College differs considerably from the personal attitude of Peter Conn, who, it appears, cannot bear the thought that the academic world should make room for people whose beliefs he despises—even if they meet the same academic standards as other colleges and universities How do accreditation agencies "uphold" "academic and intellectual standards"? They look at such factors as class size, test scores of incoming students, percentage of faculty with terminal degrees, and the like