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Evan Goldstein

Managing Editor
The Chronicle of Higher Education
evan.goldstein@chronicle.com

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

The view of the “Alma Mater” statue at Columbia University, seen from the back.
The Review | Conversation
‘It Is Remarkable How Quickly the Chill Has Descended’
By Evan Goldstein, Len Gutkin March 25, 2025
Legal scholars on what Columbia University should have done — and what other colleges could do next.
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The Review | Conversation
‘We’re in the Midst of an Authoritarian Takeover’
By Evan Goldstein, Len Gutkin March 11, 2025
Lee Bollinger on Trump, Columbia, and why capitulation won’t work.
Photo-based illustration of President Donald Trump with images of campuses and students interspersed.
The Review | Conversation
‘There’s Tremendous Foreboding’
By Evan Goldstein, Len Gutkin February 26, 2025
Four experts talk about Trump’s first month — and what’s to come.
Columbia Universty professor Rashid Khalidi sits for a portrait in his office on campus on October 1st, 2024 in New York, NY.
The Review | Interview
‘When Someone Says I’m a Terrorist, My Feelings Are Not Hurt’
By Evan Goldstein October 21, 2024
Rashid Khalidi on Palestine, protests, and retirement.
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?
illustration of Supreme Court split. 6 red columns on black, and 3 columns on blue
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.
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