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
The term caught on in the COVID era, but it makes good research impossible.
The Review | Essay
Testing can do more than help elite colleges select a small handful of students.
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Are the humanities truly thriving in community colleges?
Why are we still shoveling money at failing universities in the middle of nowhere?
Former chair of English department at Pomona allowed personal conflicts to simmer and fester.
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The Review | Forum
Eleven scholars on politics, partisanship, and the professoriate.
The Review | Essay
These 90-something professors are still publishing. Is scholarship their fountain of youth?
The Review | Opinion
College leaders crack down on protests — and lie about it.
The Review | Opinion
Colleges are the wrong target. Students should direct their efforts elsewhere.
The Review | Essay
Radical legal academics have turned on the Constitution. They may regret it.
The Review | Conversation
Delaying child-bearing is the norm. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
The Review | Opinion
Inconsistent, ideologically doctrinaire guidelines are legally risky.
The Review | Opinion
An Eastern European scholar says the AAUP’s new policy is a mistake.
The Review | Opinion
The current professionalized student sport regime makes learning impossible.
The Review | Essay
Living in the university’s blind spots.