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Why Walking Out Is Better Than Shouting Down

By Jacob T. Levy

The Notre Dame commencement protest against Vice President Mike Pence was a model of campus resistance.

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Buried History

By Marc Parry

How far should universities go to acknowledge their complicity with slavery?

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A University in Ruins

By Matt Trevithick

The Islamic State is only the latest force to attack the University of Mosul. Can it be revived — again?

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Policing the Imagination

By Madison Smartt Bell

Condemning “cultural appropriation” in all forms has dangerous consequences.

Recent Essays on the State of Higher Education

How Right-Wing Billionaires Infiltrated Higher Education

By Jane Mayer

The secret history of conservative foundations' plans to co-opt scholars and scholarship.

Has Higher Education Become an Engine of Inequality?

A Chronicle Forum

Education, long praised as the great equalizer, no longer seems to be performing as advertised. Why? We asked 10 experts to weigh in.

The Past and Future of Higher Education

The Chronicle’s 50th anniversary is an occasion to take stock of the world we cover. What ideas and arguments might shape the next 50 years?

The College Sex Bureaucracy

By Jacob Gersen and Jeannie Suk Gersen

To fight assault, the feds have made colleges clumsy monitors of students’ sex lives. Will the Trump administration reverse that trend?

When Humanists Undermine the Humanities

By Eric Adler May 14, 2017

In justifying their field, they turn to “critical thinking” and social-science criteria.

What Is Seth Abramson Trying to Tell Us?

By Steve Kolowich

An avant-garde academic poet permeates the Twittersphere by advancing anti-Trump theories.

Richard Florida Explores the Underside of the ‘Creative Class’

By Jennifer Ruark

The urbanist who urged struggling cities to lure artists, scientists, and technology workers confronts the pitfalls of that approach.

The Myth of the Muslim World

By Asma Afsaruddin

The 19th-century European project of constructing a monolithic “Muslim world” was bolstered by Muslim intellectuals themselves, a new book explains.

Why I’m Fasting With Other Graduate Students at Yale

By Alyssa Battistoni

It’s time to take a stand for insecure workers in academe and beyond.

Why the Yale Hunger Strike Is Misguided

By Amy Hungerford

It is historically and intellectually inappropriate for Ph.D.’s to use this protest tactic.

Why Tuvel’s Article So Troubled Its Critics

By Shannon Winnubst

It brought into focus long-simmering tensions between feminist philosophy and the discipline as a whole.

Instagrim: Why Social Media Makes Students Miserable

By Donna Freitas

It’s not a digital gathering place so much as a marketing forum.

Thoreau: The Wild Child at 200

By John Kaag

A superb new biography vivifies not just his searching mind but his restless spirit.

‘You’re Wrong’: The Case for Intellectual Confrontation

By Joseph Heath May 04, 2017

Not all criticism can be constructive. Some ideas and arguments are genuinely devoid of merit.

Recent Essays on Academic Culture

You Probably Won't Get Tenure. Get Your Ph.D. Anyway.

By Jacques Berlinerblau

The one broadly marketable skill a humanist might acquire in graduate school is the ability to teach.

What's Wrong With Public Intellectuals?

By Mark Greif

For starters, they can't figure out who their public is. Maybe they could learn from their midcentury predecessors.

The Corporate Assault on Higher Education

By Gordon Lafer

It’s part of a broader attack on public services that’s channeled through state legislatures to avoid the national spotlight.

Eyewitness to a Title IX Witch Trial

By Laura Kipnis

Northwestern University’s prosecution of Peter Ludlow was a purification ritual dressed up as a civilized hearing.

The Threat From Within

By John Etchemendy

Intellectual intolerance poses an existential danger to the university.

When Wellness Is a Dirty Word

By Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Why is wellness such a dirty word in academe?

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Buried History

A University in Ruins

Policing the Imagination

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How Right-Wing Billionaires Infiltrated Higher Education

Has Higher Education Become an Engine of Inequality?

The Past and Future of Higher Education

The College Sex Bureaucracy

When Humanists Undermine the Humanities

What Is Seth Abramson Trying to Tell Us?

Richard Florida Explores the Underside of the ‘Creative Class’

The Myth of the Muslim World

Why I’m Fasting With Other Graduate Students at Yale

Why the Yale Hunger Strike Is Misguided

Why Tuvel’s Article So Troubled Its Critics

Instagrim: Why Social Media Makes Students Miserable

Thoreau: The Wild Child at 200

‘You’re Wrong’: The Case for Intellectual Confrontation

You Probably Won't Get Tenure. Get Your Ph.D. Anyway.

What's Wrong With Public Intellectuals?

The Corporate Assault on Higher Education

Eyewitness to a Title IX Witch Trial

The Threat From Within

When Wellness Is a Dirty Word

How Anarchy Can Save the University

Proud to Be a Taxpayer

Academe’s Poisonous Call-Out Culture

Seek Out Strangers

Here’s Looking at You, ‘Casablanca’

The Christian Agenda Behind Inmate Education

Heartlessness as an Intellectual Style

Free Speech, but Not for All?