Naomi Schaefer Riley is a former Wall Street Journal editor and writer whose work focuses on higher education, religion, philanthropy and culture. She is the author of God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America, and most recently of The Faculty Lounges ... And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For. Riley is also the co-editor of Acculturated, a book of essays on pop culture and virtue published this spring by the Templeton Press. Ms. Riley's writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the LA Times, and the Washington Post, among other publications. She is a contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education's Brainstorm blog.
Ms. Riley has given guest lectures at schools around the country, including Hillsdale College (where she offered a two-week journalism seminar), New York University, the University of Notre Dame, the College of the Holy Cross, Grove City College and Bethel College.
She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in English and Government. She lives in the suburbs of New York with her husband, Jason, and their two children.
Chronicle of Higher Education
- If This Is Art, Your Middle-School Daughter Is Picasso January 25, 2012According to a piece in the Harvard Crimson: “Eric R. Brewster ’14 and Avery A. Leonard ’14 fought off drooping eyelids and the urge to sleep last week as they held a phone conversation that lasted for 46 hours, 12 minutes, 52 seconds, and 228 milliseconds—potentially setting a new world record.” Those wacky Harvard kids! Trying to break world records in the […]
- No Progress in Our National Conversation on Race January 17, 2012Naomi Schaefer Riley: Earth to Lee Siegel! Come in! Come in! […]
- Stupid S*&t Liberals Write About Conservatives January 9, 2012Naomi Schaefer Riley gives this week's award to Corey Robin, whom she deems "an ivory tower crackpot." […]
- Social Conservatives and the Media Elite January 9, 2012Naomi Schaefer Riley says that a debate over the weekend showed the shape of news coverage to come, with Stephanopoulos and Sawyer gleefully stalking their exotic rightist prey. […]
- Oral-Historian Privilege, Part 2 January 3, 2012Academic freedom might widen its nebulous purview after all, writes Naomi Schaefer Riley in an update on the Boston College IRA interview case. […]
- Oral-Historian Privilege? January 2, 2012Are they now like clergy or doctors or lawyers in being able to invoke confidentiality for sources? The courts seem to think otherwise, says Naomi Schaefer Riley. […]
- (Secular Jewish) Man Seeks God December 29, 2011Why are so many secular Jews ill-equipped or unwilling to understand or rigorously evaluate other religions? […]
