Hollis Robbins

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  • Jun 12, 2026
    Across the U.S., twelve million students are earning college degrees partly by 'commenting' on discussion boards, a federally subsidized system few question.
  • May 21, 2026
    Social science is broken and I was glad to provoke Michael Inzlicht's viral substack post this week, agreeing that yes, a great deal of social science is broken. The implications of...
  • May 13, 2026
    Everyone agrees it is happening. Below is a handy formula to limit unauthorized AI use in the classroom, for use by faculty, administrators, and legislators alike.
  • Apr 24, 2026
    The battle is finally forming that I've been waiting for: professors versus metrics. Faculty are finally standing up to institutional demands to check boxes rather than actually...
  • Apr 20, 2026
    The most dangerous student on an American college campus is the one whose mother went to college. Universities cannot say this out loud, but they have spent the last decade building...
  • Mar 26, 2026
    A call to cancel first-year writing
  • Mar 18, 2026
    What Hayek tells us about the coming higher ed collapse
  • Feb 27, 2026
    There is no way for anyone to know how good or bad teaching is, beyond anecdotes.