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