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  • Sarah Lawrence Graduate Student Closes Commencement Speech With ‘Free Palestine’
    June 3, 2026

    Sarah Lawrence Graduate Student Closes Commencement Speech With ‘Free Palestine’

    The college has not apologized for the remark, though it should.
  • Sweet Reason Is Not Enough
    April 27, 2026

    Sweet Reason Is Not Enough

    Harvey Mansfield shows Harvard did not just lose its independence but abandoned the intellectual habits that make reason possible.
  • Good Advice, Different Reality
    April 3, 2026

    Good Advice, Different Reality

    James Shuls’s rules for conservative faculty are hard-won and useful—but they assume institutional conditions that many private colleges do not share.
  • Harvard Faculty Are Wrong About Campus Anti-Semitism
    March 27, 2026

    Harvard Faculty Are Wrong About Campus Anti-Semitism

    Harvard failed its Jewish students. A new faculty letter asks us to forget it.
  • Small Liberal Arts Colleges Are Not Winning
    March 2, 2026

    Small Liberal Arts Colleges Are Not Winning

    Elite liberal-arts colleges are no refuge from conformity, cost, or decline.
  • Campus Anti-Semitism Was an Afterthought
    February 3, 2026

    Campus Anti-Semitism Was an Afterthought

    At the AAC&U’s 2026 annual meeting, AI, DEI, and resistance to oversight took precedence over campus anti-Semitism.
  • Whiplash
    January 26, 2026

    Whiplash

    Education reforms achieved through executive blitzes reverse quickly when political power changes hands.
  • Who Failed Harvard?
    January 12, 2026

    Who Failed Harvard?

    Claudine Gay points to everyone but herself.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • After the Kirk Assassination, Students Still Say Words Are Violence
    December 4, 2025

    After the Kirk Assassination, Students Still Say Words Are Violence

  • Harvard’s Workshops Won’t Fix a Campus Afraid to Speak
    November 24, 2025

    Harvard’s Workshops Won’t Fix a Campus Afraid to Speak

  • How Elon University Found Calm in a Year of Campus Chaos
    November 15, 2025

    How Elon University Found Calm in a Year of Campus Chaos

  • Harvard’s Got an Ethics Problem
    November 10, 2025

    Harvard’s Got an Ethics Problem

  • Faculty Face Widespread Punishment for Speech, Administrators and Unions Stay Silent
    November 4, 2025

    Faculty Face Widespread Punishment for Speech, Administrators and Unions Stay Silent

  • Lisa Siraganian Gets Viewpoint Diversity Backward
    October 27, 2025

    Lisa Siraganian Gets Viewpoint Diversity Backward

  • Columbia’s ‘Listening Table’ Band-Aid Can’t Heal Institutional Rot
    October 13, 2025

    Columbia’s ‘Listening Table’ Band-Aid Can’t Heal Institutional Rot

  • AAUP Declares Victory Over Trump’s ‘Thought Police,’ Promises To Protect Only the Right Kind of Free Speech
    October 9, 2025

    AAUP Declares Victory Over Trump’s ‘Thought Police,’ Promises To Protect Only the Right Kind of Free Speech

  • Seven Theses for Viewpoint Diversity
    October 2, 2025

    Seven Theses for Viewpoint Diversity

  • Students Should Hit Pause on Social Media
    September 26, 2025

    Students Should Hit Pause on Social Media

  • Anti-Semitism Among Faculty and the University’s Betrayal
    September 25, 2025

    Anti-Semitism Among Faculty and the University’s Betrayal

  • Why I’m Assigning “Hillbilly Elegy”
    September 24, 2025

    Why I’m Assigning “Hillbilly Elegy”

  • From Campus Rhetoric to Assassination
    September 13, 2025

    From Campus Rhetoric to Assassination

  • Harvard’s GPA Bubble Is About to Burst—Faculty Need to Let Out the Hot Air
    September 2, 2025

    Harvard’s GPA Bubble Is About to Burst—Faculty Need to Let Out the Hot Air

  • Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, and the Classroom That Learned Nothing
    August 29, 2025

    Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, and the Classroom That Learned Nothing

  • AAUP President Embraces ‘Militant Action,’ Betrays Founding Mission
    August 21, 2025

    AAUP President Embraces ‘Militant Action,’ Betrays Founding Mission

  • The Price We Pay for Performative Progressivism in Higher Education
    August 18, 2025

    The Price We Pay for Performative Progressivism in Higher Education

  • Academic Rigor Sticks When Students Feel Seen, Known, and Valued—Men Especially
    August 18, 2025

    Academic Rigor Sticks When Students Feel Seen, Known, and Valued—Men Especially

  • Princeton President Melts Down, Rejects Responsibility for Campus Anti-Semitism
    August 13, 2025

    Princeton President Melts Down, Rejects Responsibility for Campus Anti-Semitism

  • Welcome to College: A Letter for the Journey Ahead
    August 12, 2025

    Welcome to College: A Letter for the Journey Ahead

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