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Opinions and ideas for those in higher education.
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The Review | Opinion
Will We Get a More Moderate Endowment Tax?
By Phillip Levine June 20, 2025
The Senate’s proposal is less onerous than the House’s. Here’s how much it could cost your college.
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The Review | Essay
The Latest Awful EdTech Buzzword: “Learnings”
By Kit Nicholls June 20, 2025
It’s a truism that, the more you learn, the more you realize how much you don’t know. That mentality holds in most traditional academic disciplines, where humility is a survival strategy that keeps us from stepping into ankle-breaking intellectual sinkholes known only to experts in unfamiliar…
William F. Buckley, Jr.
The Review | Interview
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Origins of the Battle Against ‘Woke’
By Evan Goldstein June 20, 2025
The Ivy League gadfly sparked the conservative war on colleges.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The Review | Opinion
What RFK Jr. Got Right About Academic Publishing
By Robert M. Kaplan June 20, 2025
The system no longer works for anyone except corporate publishers.
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The Review | Essay
In Defense of ‘Silly’ Science
By Carly Anne York June 18, 2025
Basic research and the value of curiosity.
Illustration showing a graduate's hand holding a college diploma and another hand but a vote into a ballot box
The Review | Essay
Civics Education Is Back. It Shouldn’t Belong to Conservatives.
By Timothy Messer-Kruse June 18, 2025
Activist scholarship and education for citizenship are a natural fit.
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The Review | Essay
What Will Be Left of Higher Ed in Four Years?
By Brendan Cantwell June 18, 2025
The Trump administration’s moves are impoverishing the sector.
Football game between UCLA and Colorado University, at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colo., Sept. 24, 2022.
The Review | Opinion
My University Values Football More Than Education
By Sigman Byrd June 16, 2025
At the University of Colorado at Boulder, athletics gets all the attention — and funding.
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The Review | Essay
The Unraveling of the AAUP
By Matthew W. Finkin June 13, 2025
This organization no longer knows what it stands for.
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The Review | Opinion
Colleges Can’t Trust the Federal Government. What Now?
By Brian Rosenberg June 9, 2025
Trump has turned financial support into an existential risk.
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