Leon Botstein

This is the best chance to kill the conformist pseudoscience of U.S. News, once and for all.

Social mobility has stalled, and the public is losing trust. Time for universities to rethink their role in American life?

The case for free speech must be made with appropriate sensitivity to the perspective of its critics.

The invitation to the German politician Marc Jongen “does not constitute either legitimation or endorsement.”

The Finn’s critical fortunes rose and fell during his lifetime. But as something of a modernist in disguise, he merits a fresh listen.

This year Milton Babbitt celebrates his 90th birthday. Few 20th-century American composers have been as vital, productive, combative, and controversial. Babbitt has succeeded in achieving prominence and notoriety within not only the world of music but the university as well. His music, however,…