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December 2025
December 31, 2025
Books for the Year Ahead
Recommendations from our team.
December 31, 2025
March On
On December 31, 1775…
December 29, 2025
Two Ways of Reckoning with Failure
Two Harvard professors reflect on institutional failure—only one takes responsibility.
December 29, 2025
American Graduates Need Not Apply
A senior partner at a large U.S. company admits corporations will skirt H-1B restrictions—leaving American graduates behind.
December 25, 2025
Why Professors Should Write Op-eds
And why the Pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving but not Christmas
December 24, 2025
Christmas on Campus
Christmas survives on campus only once it’s stripped of meaning and guaranteed to offend no one.
December 23, 2025
History Without Dogma
Why serious professors don’t need ideological frameworks to teach race and racism.
December 22, 2025
Darwinism, Reconsidered
J. Scott Turner discusses heterodox evolution on the Demystifysci podcast.
December 22, 2025
Remedial Nation
Students can’t read or do math because teachers were never taught the subjects they teach.
December 22, 2025
Cold Ground, Colder Men
On December 22, 1775…
December 22, 2025
BU College Republicans President Faces Threats After ICE Raid Tweet
Segal says Globe reporting and social media backlash led to threats, doxxing, and campus hostility.
December 19, 2025
Student Editor at Trinity College Urges Relocation of Confederate Plaque
December 18, 2025
Four Years, Warm Chairs
What’s the point of high school if students still can’t read?
December 18, 2025
In Memoriam: Norman Podhoretz
December 18, 2025
Don’t Mistake Enrollment Gains for Renewed Confidence
December 17, 2025
What the New International Enrollment Drop Really Shows
December 17, 2025
The Right’s Retreat from the Liberal Arts and Its Intellectual Costs
Viewing education only in terms of job-market value is a guarantee of intellectual loss.
December 16, 2025
Public Money, Public Syllabi
Transparency is a basic obligation of public employment.
December 16, 2025
Trump Justice Department Discontinues Disparate Impact Liability
December 16, 2025
Academe Calls It Impostor Syndrome. Reality Calls It Inadequacy.
December 15, 2025
College Sports Have Outgrown the Schools That Made Them
December 12, 2025
Indiana University ‘Black Health’ Course Blames Racism for Health Gaps
December 11, 2025
The Academy Warned Against Babies—Now It’s Dying from the Shortage
December 11, 2025
America’s Schools Still Teach for Yesterday’s Jobs
December 10, 2025
A Small Act of Thievery in Vermont
December 10, 2025
The SAVE Student Loan Repayment Plan May Finally Be on Its Deathbed
December 10, 2025
Jewish Students Face Hostility—Yet Sarah Lawrence Faculty Target Federal Oversight, Not Student Safety
December 9, 2025
Chinese University of Michigan Researcher Deported for Biopathogen Smuggling
December 9, 2025
The Case Against Racial Essentialism in Academia—and in America
December 8, 2025
Federal Aid Just Hit $155 Billion