Jonathan Zimmerman
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.
Stories by this Author
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The Review | Opinion
The Free-Speech Crisis Colleges Ignore
Chinese students face harassment for expressing their political views. Where’s the outrage? -
Advice
When, and Why, I’ll Retire
A senior professor offers his college a deal: Replace me with a tenure-track hire, and I’ll opt for emeritus life. -
The Review
Higher Ed’s Misguided Purging of Trump Supporters
Like during the Cold War, academic freedom is under attack in the name of democracy. -
Advice
Lessons From the 2020 Democratic and Republican Conventions — for Teaching Online
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. -
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The Review
Coronavirus and the Great Online-Learning Experiment
Let’s determine what our students actually learn online. -
The Review
Why Colleges Should Require a Gap Year
It would go a long way toward improving higher education’s public perception. -
The Review
How College Life Became the Hunger Games
Competition in all spheres of student life has ruined the fun of it all. -
News
‘Social Justice,’ According to Whom?
The concept is complicated, but you wouldn’t know that by walking around college campuses. -
The Review
College Campuses Should Not Be Safe Spaces
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.