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The Chronicle’s opinion, analysis, and culture section, with op-eds, book reviews, interviews, letters, scholar profiles, and essays about the ideas and controversies shaping higher education.
The Review | Opinion
By Yi Lu April 22, 2025
The administration is alienating international students and imposing a tax on knowledge.
The Review | Essay
By Steven Brint April 21, 2025
This is the most important showdown between state and academe since 1816.

Latest Letters

Loyalty oaths have no place in the academy.
A recent essay was confused and bitter, writes Catherine O’Donnell.
A defense of obscurantism missed the mark, writes Paul Horwitz.

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The Review | Essay
By Richard D. Kahlenberg April 21, 2025
The university made itself a target by embracing affirmative action.
The Review | Opinion
By Robert Kelchen April 16, 2025
There are a handful of viable financial strategies. They all have downsides.
The Review | Opinion
By Michael C. Dorf April 16, 2025
Giving in to the administration’s demands would have been ruinous.
The Review | Essay
By Rafael Walker April 15, 2025
The great writer has been exiled from the Norton anthology.
The Review | Opinion
By James Smoliga April 15, 2025
Experts who criticize politicians should make sure they have their facts straight.
The Review | Essay
By Timothy Brennan April 14, 2025
The university is abandoning its intellectual inheritance.
The Review | Opinion
By Dhananjay Jagannathan April 10, 2025
It won’t work, and it violates the spirit of free inquiry.
The Review | Opinion
By Phillip Levine April 10, 2025
Is yours among them?
The Review | Essay
By Blake Smith April 9, 2025
The story of a philosopher and her wayward student.
The Review | Essay
By Scott Latham April 8, 2025
Everything is about to change.