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Risk-Benefit Analysis
Can This University Make Scooters Safer?
They’re annoying and sometimes deadly — yet highly useful. Spin and Virginia Tech conducted a $400,000 study to find a middle ground. -
The Review | Essay
The Line Between Knowledge and Magic Is Thinner Than We Think
Anthony Grafton’s alternate history of the Renaissance. -
'A Journey for the Long Haul'
Where Do Colleges’ Antiracism Centers Go From Here?
Amid scrutiny from legislators and the public, the scholars who lead these centers are trying to defend their work. Six of them spoke with The Chronicle about what they’ve been working on. -
The Review | Essay
How Chapters Shaped the History of Reading
Nicholas Dames’s new book considers a literary feature that scholars usually neglect. -
The Review | Opinion
Science Has a Censorship Problem
The motives are benign. The effects are insidious. -
Advice
Adventures in Substack
How to get started writing and publishing your own academic newsletter. -
Teaching and Learning
Which Is Better, Active Learning or Lecture? It’s Not So Simple.
New research suggests that’s the wrong question. -
The Review | Conversation
Why Is Stanley Fish Teaching at Florida’s New College?
An interview about politics, academic freedom, and “ideological odor.” -
The Review | Essay
Decolonizing Anthropology — Or Racializing It?
How narrow political orthodoxies took over the field.