Jared Gould Archives — Minding The Campus

May 14, 2026

What’s Feeding the ‘Graduate Unemployment Crisis’?

A mix of economic, educational, and corporate failures is making it difficult for young Americans to enter the workforce.
May 7, 2026

They Keep Losing and Keep Trying Anyway

California lawmakers push ACA 7 to revive racial preferences that voters have repeatedly rejected.
April 30, 2026

13 Dead or Missing Tied to Sensitive Research

A conspiracy linking the deaths and disappearances is plausible, given the intensifying foreign espionage targeting U.S. research.
April 23, 2026

A Rally on Campus

Pickleball is serving up something good on campus—but let’s not get carried away.
April 9, 2026

Why Are So Many Protestant Students Converting to Catholicism?

The pursuit of truth has a great deal to do with it.
March 31, 2026

The Loneliest Generation Turns to AI for Intimacy

One in five high schoolers has begun using AI for emotional and romantic engagement.
March 26, 2026

Credentialed, Not Educated

Many foreign language graduates aren’t proficient, raising doubts about what college degrees actually signal.
March 19, 2026

The Liberal Arts Matter

No freedom without reason.
March 12, 2026

Medical Schools Fill RFK Jr.’s Nutrition Prescription

But one healthy reform does not mean medical education has cured its deeper ailments.
March 5, 2026

You’ve Never Learned the Revolution Like This

If American history matters to you, you should be reading this series.
March 3, 2026

History Can Be Kind to Him

On March 3, 1776…
February 26, 2026

A 40,000-Foot View of Campus Anti-Semitism

What the Civil Rights Commission hearing revealed about enforcement, funding cuts, and the fight over anti-Zionism.
February 26, 2026

Raise a Bridge

On February 26, 1775…
February 18, 2026

The Community College Reinvents Itself—Again

The latest evolution of a century-old experiment may reshape competition—and standards—in higher education.
February 13, 2026

Trump Lowers the Thermostat State

Revoking the EPA’s greenhouse gas finding reopens debate over economic tradeoffs, industrial competitiveness, and academia’s embrace of climate orthodoxy.
February 12, 2026

Rigging the Clock

The explosion of academic accommodations at elite universities makes it tough to believe their students are truly smarter—or more capable—than everyone else.
February 5, 2026

College Sports Gambling Deserves Serious Scrutiny

Colleges and universities have become willing participants in the sports-betting economy, drawing more students into debt.
February 5, 2026

A Dangerous Bet

As sports betting sweeps the nation, colleges aren’t just watching from the sidelines—they’re cashing in on the action, monetizing their students’ vices.
February 3, 2026

Lawsuit Alleges Cornell Pursued a ‘Diversity Hire’

The lawsuit is one of many targeting race-based practices in the post–affirmative action era.
January 29, 2026

A White-Collar Trade School?

A view that college should prepare students for immediate employment is now mainstream across America.
January 28, 2026

Universities Push Sanctuary Campus Agenda for Illegal Immigrants

Illegal migrant enrollment helps universities meet demographic thresholds associated with preferential public funding.
January 25, 2026

Munitions Needed

On January 25, 1776…
January 22, 2026

Selling Sex, Digitally

Economic pressure and institutional culture have combined to make digital sex work an income strategy for many female college students.
January 21, 2026

A Market Test

Degrees that don’t deliver face a federal cutoff—just as the job market grows less forgiving.
January 15, 2026

That’s Not Good

A weak job market awaits recent graduates—and young men are feeling the contraction most.
January 1, 2026

Notes from a Night Train

Gratitude for 2025, vigilance for 2026.
December 29, 2025

Two Ways of Reckoning with Failure

Two Harvard professors reflect on institutional failure—only one takes responsibility.
December 22, 2025

Darwinism, Reconsidered

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

Cold Ground, Colder Men

On December 22, 1775…
December 18, 2025

Four Years, Warm Chairs

What’s the point of high school if students still can’t read?