Cover Story
The Review | Essay
The kids are not all right, writes Mary Gaitskill, American novelist and a longtime professor of creative writing.
Highlights
The Review | Essay
At elite colleges the “best and brightest” are shamelessly flattered.
College Budget Woes
Inflation, enrollment woes, and increasing intolerance of tuition increases have made this budget season especially difficult.
Politics and Knowledge
War and politics could make on-the-ground study of China and Russia difficult, if not impossible.
Also in the Issue
'Incompatible With Democracy'
If passed, the legislation would forbid academic programs in gender studies, critical race theory, and intersectionality. The AAUP calls it “a complete violation of academic freedom.”
Faculty Sanction
New questions surround the harsh penalty meted out to a noted UCLA ecologist.
Labor Organizing
More than 60 percent of all workers who went on strike in 2022 were part of the educational-services industry.
Data
When Finlandia University recently announced it would shut down, the reasons it gave echoed those of other small, less-selective colleges that have closed.
The Review | Opinion
Tensions between core values must be tested case by case.
The Review | Opinion
Even conservatives should oppose the Florida governor.
The Review | Opinion
The data are far less damning than critics contend.
Advice
Nearly every campus looking for a new president first hires an executive-search consultant. Too many make an ill-considered choice.