Liza Libes

April 7, 2026

What ChatGPT Is Doing to Student Writing

Today’s students can write a perfect sentence that says absolutely nothing.
February 10, 2026

What the Ivy League Is Really Selling

Not a better education, but elite social formation.
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.
November 3, 2025

Helicopter Parenting Won’t Get Your Child into Harvard
October 7, 2025

Students Are Reading Garbage
September 15, 2025

The SAT’s STEM Bias Points to a Larger Crisis in Reading and Writing
July 21, 2025

Coaching the College Essay in the Age of AI
July 7, 2025

Worried About AI? Study the Humanities
June 2, 2025

Your Chatbot Is Not Tolstoy
March 31, 2025

We Need to Do Something About Student Writing
March 17, 2025

Think Twice Before Attacking the Department of Education
February 24, 2025

Conservatives Must Save the Liberal Arts
February 3, 2025

The Passion Project Industry: How College Admissions Activities Lists Killed Intellectual Wonder
January 3, 2025

Ivies in Crisis
November 20, 2024

Students Are Unprepared to Read Books
October 21, 2024

Literature Has Become a Playground for Marxists
August 21, 2024

Why We Should Free Literary Study from Marxist Proponents