Evan Goldstein

Evan Goldstein commissions and edits articles on all aspects of academic life, including intellectual trends in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. He has written about the business professor Clayton Christensen, the computer scientist David Gelernter, and the historian and critic Tony Judt.

He has a bachelor’s degree from Skidmore College.

Stories by This Author

Cal State Long Beach students hold a campus rally in support of Palestinians amid the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023.

'On Settler Colonialism'

The Idea Fueling the Student Protest Movement

By Evan Goldstein August 15, 2024

Are colleges facing — and facilitating — an intellectual crisis?

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Daily Briefing

Daily Briefing: Will the GOP save the humanities?

Columbia admins on leave. A win for Arizona faculty senates. Concordia U. Ann Arbor moves online, and more.

Students stand guard in front of Hamilton Hall on the Columbia University Campus after student protesters entered and occupied the building. The occupation came at the end of a day of protests as the Gaza Encampment Zone entered its 13th day, and students were threatened with suspensions if they did not leave by 2pm. New York City, early in the morning of April 30, 2024.

The Review | Interview

‘We Have a Mass Movement of Young People Advancing Horrifying Ideas’

By Evan Goldstein May 13, 2024

Paul Berman, a leader of the ’68 protests at Columbia University, warns of an intellectual crisis.

Jackson, NH, United States -- Portrait of Glenn Loury, a professor at Brown University, photographed in Jackson, NH on Friday, June 7, 2019. Loury was interviewed by The Chronicle of Higher Education about affirmative action, and shared some of his personal and career history.

THE REVIEW | PROFILE

Glenn Loury Comes Clean

By Evan Goldstein April 9, 2024

Is the public intellectual’s candid memoir an act of self-reckoning or self-sabotage?

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The Review | Conversation

Did Colleges Discriminate Against Asians? The Court Didn’t Say.

By Evan Goldstein, Len Gutkin July 12, 2023

The Harvard law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen on the affirmative-action decision.

Author and journalist Jonathan Rauch at his home in Falls Church, Virginia, on August 11, 2021.

The Review

Higher Ed Has a Credibility Problem

By Evan Goldstein August 12, 2021

Do academics share one worldview? People tend to think so, and you can’t blame them, says Jonathan Rauch.

"On a lot of campuses, the word 'data' mashed together with the word 'science' has a sort of alchemical magic," says Jill Lepore. "It mints gold!"

The Review

Higher Ed Has a Silicon Valley Problem

By Evan Goldstein September 23, 2020

Jill Lepore on how algorithms came to supersede art, and the distorting effects of money in academe.

The Review

‘Affirmative Action Is Not About Equality. It’s About Covering Ass.’

By Evan Goldstein June 17, 2019

Glenn Loury on race, surviving public humiliation, and why becoming the first African-American to earn tenure in the Harvard economics department was pure agony.

The historian and author Jill Lepore in her office at Harvard U.

The Review

‘The Academy Is Largely Itself Responsible for Its Own Peril’

By Evan Goldstein November 13, 2018

Jill Lepore on writing the story of America, the rise and fall of the fact, and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined.

The Review

What Follows the End of History? Identity Politics

By Evan Goldstein August 27, 2018

Francis Fukuyama on global politics, campus politics, and being a student of Paul de Man and Allan Bloom.