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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Colleges should speak with their own true voices.
The Review | Opinion
It’s time we level the playing field with Big Tech.
Latest Letters
Shrinking the size of boards of trustees can be a good idea — if done right.
The goal shouldn’t be substituting the legislature’s preferred ideology for the faculty’s, writes Andrew J. Perrin.
We must learn from these cases and examine how they contribute to organizational paralysis, writes Carol A. Kochhar-Bryant.
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What the announcement might mean for graduate school writ large.
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On John Guillory’s new history of a contested technique.
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In its place, we should be cultivating our own digital spaces.
The Review | Essay
A new edition of The Life of the Mind is a revelation.
The Review | Opinion
Worrying about “wokeness” is nothing more than navel-gazing.
The Review | Reporting
Universities have been providing treatment to inmates. Is that a good idea?
The Review | Opinion
In the era of race-neutral admissions, data from entering classes don’t add up.
The Review | Essay
Bureaucrats are overcomplying with state DEI laws. Faculty must fight back.
The Review | Opinion
Americans are fed up, and not just people who voted for Trump.