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Newsletter Archive
March 24, 2025
Plus: DEI statements are dead in California.
March 17, 2025
What’s happening to Mahmoud Khalil is about a lot more than higher education.
March 10, 2025
Plus: A Stanford student journalist is out of danger, finally.
Feb. 24, 2025
Plus: Debates about institutional neutrality, DEI, academic freedom, and the AAUP.
Feb. 18, 2025
Plus: Does the AAUP have a viable political plan? Not really.
Feb. 10, 2025
Plus: Will left-wing DEI be replaced by right-wing DEI?
Feb. 3, 2025
There’s a gap between the rhetoric and the legal implications.
Jan. 27, 2025
Plus: A Chronicle writer stopped at the border.