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December 2025

  • Books for the Year Ahead
    December 31, 2025

    Books for the Year Ahead

    Recommendations from our team.
  • March On
    December 31, 2025

    March On

    On December 31, 1775…
  • Two Ways of Reckoning with Failure
    December 29, 2025

    Two Ways of Reckoning with Failure

    Two Harvard professors reflect on institutional failure—only one takes responsibility.
  • American Graduates Need Not Apply
    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.
  • Why Professors Should Write Op-eds
    December 25, 2025

    Why Professors Should Write Op-eds

    And why the Pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving but not Christmas
  • Christmas on Campus
    December 24, 2025

    Christmas on Campus

    Christmas survives on campus only once it’s stripped of meaning and guaranteed to offend no one.
  • History Without Dogma
    December 23, 2025

    History Without Dogma

    Why serious professors don’t need ideological frameworks to teach race and racism.
  • Darwinism, Reconsidered
    December 22, 2025

    Darwinism, Reconsidered

    J. Scott Turner discusses heterodox evolution on the Demystifysci podcast.
  • Remedial Nation
    December 22, 2025

    Remedial Nation

    Students can’t read or do math because teachers were never taught the subjects they teach.
  • Cold Ground, Colder Men
    December 22, 2025

    Cold Ground, Colder Men

    On December 22, 1775…
  • BU College Republicans President Faces Threats After ICE Raid Tweet
    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.
  • Student Editor at Trinity College Urges Relocation of Confederate Plaque
    December 19, 2025

    Student Editor at Trinity College Urges Relocation of Confederate Plaque

  • Four Years, Warm Chairs
    December 18, 2025

    Four Years, Warm Chairs

    What’s the point of high school if students still can’t read?
  • In Memoriam: Norman Podhoretz
    December 18, 2025

    In Memoriam: Norman Podhoretz

  • Don’t Mistake Enrollment Gains for Renewed Confidence
    December 18, 2025

    Don’t Mistake Enrollment Gains for Renewed Confidence

  • What the New International Enrollment Drop Really Shows
    December 17, 2025

    What the New International Enrollment Drop Really Shows

  • The Right’s Retreat from the Liberal Arts and Its Intellectual Costs
    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.
  • Public Money, Public Syllabi
    December 16, 2025

    Public Money, Public Syllabi

    Transparency is a basic obligation of public employment.
  • Trump Justice Department Discontinues Disparate Impact Liability
    December 16, 2025

    Trump Justice Department Discontinues Disparate Impact Liability

  • Academe Calls It Impostor Syndrome. Reality Calls It Inadequacy.
    December 16, 2025

    Academe Calls It Impostor Syndrome. Reality Calls It Inadequacy.

  • College Sports Have Outgrown the Schools That Made Them
    December 15, 2025

    College Sports Have Outgrown the Schools That Made Them

  • Indiana University ‘Black Health’ Course Blames Racism for Health Gaps
    December 12, 2025

    Indiana University ‘Black Health’ Course Blames Racism for Health Gaps

  • The Academy Warned Against Babies—Now It’s Dying from the Shortage
    December 11, 2025

    The Academy Warned Against Babies—Now It’s Dying from the Shortage

  • America’s Schools Still Teach for Yesterday’s Jobs
    December 11, 2025

    America’s Schools Still Teach for Yesterday’s Jobs

  • A Small Act of Thievery in Vermont
    December 10, 2025

    A Small Act of Thievery in Vermont

  • The SAVE Student Loan Repayment Plan May Finally Be on Its Deathbed
    December 10, 2025

    The SAVE Student Loan Repayment Plan May Finally Be on Its Deathbed

  • Jewish Students Face Hostility—Yet Sarah Lawrence Faculty Target Federal Oversight, Not Student Safety
    December 10, 2025

    Jewish Students Face Hostility—Yet Sarah Lawrence Faculty Target Federal Oversight, Not Student Safety

  • Chinese University of Michigan Researcher Deported for Biopathogen Smuggling
    December 9, 2025

    Chinese University of Michigan Researcher Deported for Biopathogen Smuggling

  • The Case Against Racial Essentialism in Academia—and in America
    December 9, 2025

    The Case Against Racial Essentialism in Academia—and in America

  • Federal Aid Just Hit $155 Billion
    December 8, 2025

    Federal Aid Just Hit $155 Billion

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