The Review
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 | Essay
The Review | Essay
Badar Khan Suri is held in Texas. We spoke through glass. This is what he said.
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 | Opinion
The administration is alienating international students and imposing a tax on knowledge.
The Review | Essay
This is the most important showdown between state and academe since 1816.
The Review | Essay
The university made itself a target by embracing affirmative action.
The Review | Opinion
There are a handful of viable financial strategies. They all have downsides.
The Review | Opinion
Giving in to the administration’s demands would have been ruinous.
The Review | Essay
The great writer has been exiled from the Norton anthology.
The Review | Opinion
Experts who criticize politicians should make sure they have their facts straight.
The Review | Essay
The university is abandoning its intellectual inheritance.
The Review | Opinion
It won’t work, and it violates the spirit of free inquiry.
