Shapin believes the Biblical usage of the word came to inspire the modern phrase “ivory tower”, which truly took off in the early 19 th century when it started to be used by several French ...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, who died 50 years ago on Sept. 2, 1973, spent his entire professional life in the academy, yet his impact on the world reached far beyond the ivory tower.

Remember the ivory tower of Babel in the Old Testament? College campuses are more biblical than liberals think. As Mike S. Adams explains in his new book Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel ...