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Len Gutkin

Senior Editor, The Chronicle Review

What I Do

I commission and edit essays and articles on academic politics and culture for The Chronicle’s ideas and opinion section, The Review. I also write The Review‘s weekly newsletter.

My Background

I joined The Chronicle in 2018. Before that, I was a postdoc in the Harvard Society of Fellows. I earned my bachelor’s degree in languages and literature from Bard College in 2007 and my Ph.D. in English from Yale University in 2014.

Connect

Email: len.gutkin@chronicle.com
Signal: lengutkin.10
X: @GutkinLen
Website: lengutkin.com

Recent Stories

Robert Carter for The Chronicle
The Review
Yale Professors Flee American ‘Reign of Terror’
Plus: Tracking Trump’s student-visa actions.
Robert Carter for The Chronicle
The Review
Harvard Ousts the Head of a Middle East Center. Why?
Plus: Laura Kipnis on federal funding threats, versions 1.0 and 2.0.
Robert Carter for The Chronicle
The Review
Freedom Is Suspended on College Campuses
The snatching of students by immigration officials spells the end, at least for now, of free speech.
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.
A former financial-aid director and three former students at Columbia’s Teachers College are facing conspiracy and bribery charges.
The Review
Columbia Capitulates. The Question Is Why.
Plus: DEI statements are dead in California.
A former financial-aid director and three former students at Columbia’s Teachers College are facing conspiracy and bribery charges.
The Review
Columbia University in the Lion’s Den
What’s happening to Mahmoud Khalil is about a lot more than higher education.
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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.
A former financial-aid director and three former students at Columbia’s Teachers College are facing conspiracy and bribery charges.
The Review
Trump Comes Gunning for Columbia’s ‘Antisemitism’
Plus: A Stanford student journalist is out of danger, finally.
Robert Carter for The Chronicle
The Review
Self-Flagellation in the Halls of Academe
Plus: Matthew Finkin on the AAUP.
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.
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