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Opinions and ideas for those in higher education.
Greil Marcus
The Review | Essay
Can Criticism Still Be A Career?
By Mitch Therieau September 11, 2024
Greil Marcus’s adventures in style.
5713-Dante
The Review | Essay
Why Scholars Should Stop Studying ‘Misinformation’
By Jacob N. Shapiro, Sean Norton September 10, 2024
The term caught on in the COVID era, but it makes good research impossible.
illustration of standardized test with lettered circles dropping off the page
The Review | Essay
Don’t Scrap Standardized Tests. Make Them Fairer.
By Nicholas Lemann September 6, 2024
Testing can do more than help elite colleges select a small handful of students.
NYU (New York University) students hold "Divest" sign as they participate in a walkout during a national day of action called by the "Students for Justice in Palestine" at Washington Square park in New York on October 25, 2023.
The Review | Opinion
Divestment Protests Won’t Succeed
By Adam Gjesdal August 30, 2024
Colleges are the wrong target. Students should direct their efforts elsewhere.
Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel
The Review | Conversation
Should You Have Kids ... in Grad School?
By Anastasia Berg, Rachel Wiseman August 28, 2024
Delaying child-bearing is the norm. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
TOPSHOT - A woman walks towards the damaged Lviv National University of Nature Management, after a drone attack in Dubliany on the outskirt of Lviv on January 1, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine said on January 1, 2024 it had foiled a "record" number of Russian drones on the night of New Year's Eve after a week of escalation in the nearly two-year conflict. (Photo by YURIY DYACHYSHYN / AFP) (Photo by YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP via Getty Images)
The Review | Opinion
Academic Boycotts Hurt Dissidents Most
By Michał Bilewicz August 27, 2024
An Eastern European scholar says the AAUP’s new policy is a mistake.
illustration of goal posts and football made of money on an Xs and Os play
The Review | Opinion
College Athletes Are Being Robbed of an Education
By Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Derek Silva August 26, 2024
The current professionalized student sport regime makes learning impossible.
illustration of an academic building, with students disappearing into virus holes
The Review | Essay
Elite Colleges Are More Diverse Than Ever. They’re Still Unequal.
By Anthony Abraham Jack August 23, 2024
Living in the university’s blind spots.
Wolfson-0821 Ricardo Rey
The Review | Opinion
The AAUP Has Always Defended Academic Freedom. We Still Do.
By Rana Jaleel, Todd Wolfson August 21, 2024
A new boycott policy doesn’t change that.
Illustration showing Sisyphus rolling a giant "no" symbol up a hill
The Review | Opinion
The AAUP’s Incoherent New Boycott Policy
By Jeffrey Sachs August 16, 2024
The organization fails to see that it’s opened the door to chaos.
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