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  • 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

  • What We Owe Graduates in the Age of the Great Slowdown
    August 11, 2025

    What We Owe Graduates in the Age of the Great Slowdown

  • A Year of Hostility—and Harvard Still Refuses to See It
    August 6, 2025

    A Year of Hostility—and Harvard Still Refuses to See It

  • Declining Patriotism Signals a Civic Education Crisis—But Reform Is Possible
    July 28, 2025

    Declining Patriotism Signals a Civic Education Crisis—But Reform Is Possible

  • A Settlement Won’t Fix Columbia’s Anti-Semitism Problem
    July 25, 2025

    A Settlement Won’t Fix Columbia’s Anti-Semitism Problem

  • When Anti-Semitism Is Claimed, Facts Must Follow
    July 22, 2025

    When Anti-Semitism Is Claimed, Facts Must Follow

  • We Need a ‘PostBS’ Civics—Starting in Elementary and Middle School
    July 7, 2025

    We Need a ‘PostBS’ Civics—Starting in Elementary and Middle School

  • Harvard Must Defend Its Integrity Without Losing Its Head
    July 3, 2025

    Harvard Must Defend Its Integrity Without Losing Its Head

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