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May 19, 2026
The Yale professor wants to be known for his scholarship. The culture war has other ideas.
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May 11, 2026
Harvard professor Harry Lewis, a longtime critic of the university's academic direction, reflects on his vindication following recent controversies.
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May 7, 2026
Harvey C. Mansfield, who enrolled at Harvard in 1949, joined the faculty in 1962, and retired in 2023, has been called many things: "great dissenter," "prophet," "racist, homophobic...
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Apr 21, 2026
That claim got a political scientist denounced. Is it true?
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Apr 13, 2026
Steven Salaita remembers the day he became notorious. Whether you regard Salaita as patient zero in the modern erosion of academic freedom or the face of everything wrong with the...
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Apr 9, 2026
Some see the decline as evidence of antisemitism. Noah Feldman is dubious.
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Feb 25, 2026
How John Brockman, the most powerful man in science publishing, brokered Epstein’s access to academe.
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Feb 20, 2026
David Brooks on the sins of the educated class, what Trump gets right, and why he’s leaving ‘The New York Times’ for Yale University.