A shibboleth is a word or custom that identifies members of a group. Originally from an ancient Hebrew story, it now includes slogans, beliefs, and habits. These markers help people recognize shared ...

I could hardly believe my ears. The BBC, on a radio news program and then again on the 8 a.m. news, quoted a British politician as saying “I think we must also recognize that there are real economic ...

In his debut novel, Shibboleth, Thomas Peermohamed Lambert satirizes how the madness that has beset higher education across the Western world came to Oxford University. And that madness is never ...