Jonathan Zimmerman teaches education and history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools, which was published in a revised 20th-anniversary edition this fall by the University of Chicago Press.
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The Review | Opinion
Chinese students face harassment for expressing their political views. Where’s the outrage?
Advice
A senior professor offers his college a deal: Replace me with a tenure-track hire, and I’ll opt for emeritus life.
The Review
Like during the Cold War, academic freedom is under attack in the name of democracy.
Advice
The Democratic and Republican conventions offered academics a few lessons on what to do — and a lot on what not to do — in a virtual classroom.
The Review
Let’s determine what our students actually learn online.
The Review
It would go a long way toward improving higher education’s public perception.
The Review
Competition in all spheres of student life has ruined the fun of it all.
News
The concept is complicated, but you wouldn’t know that by walking around college campuses.
The Review
Controversy over the removal of the Silent Sam statue serves as a reminder that it is not a college’s duty to protect people from ideas they find offensive or distasteful.
