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May 20, 2026
As our nation approaches its 250th birthday, the question is not whether we will mark the occasion. The parades, lectures, and commemorative coins are already in motion. The real...
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May 13, 2026
I want to say something to the Class of 2026 that Sarah Lawrence College did not say at Commencement. They deserve to hear it plainly.
On May 8, 2026, Sarah Lawrence held its 98th...
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May 7, 2026
At the University of Michigan’s 2026 commencement exercises, history professor Derek Peterson stood before graduating seniors and their families and, as chair of the...
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Apr 21, 2026
The closing of Hampshire College was not a surprise. It was a long time coming, and its demise reflects a broader shift in what families now expect from higher education.
At its...
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Apr 14, 2026
In recent weeks, the Florida Board of Governors voted to remove introductory sociology from the state’s general education core, setting off predictable outrage across higher...
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Apr 8, 2026
Observers across the political spectrum have identified a real problem in American higher education: too many campuses have drifted from genuine inquiry toward ideological...
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Mar 26, 2026
For the better part of a decade, a familiar narrative has taken hold: Young men are adrift—detached from work, disconnected from relationships, and increasingly uninterested in...
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Mar 26, 2026
A few weeks ago, I was reading about space with my daughter.
Like many kids, she’s at that age where curiosity comes easily - where the world still feels open and full of...
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Mar 17, 2026
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is now in the spotlight. Recent reporting has documented how the nation’s largest humanities funder has spent years channeling billions into...
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Mar 9, 2026
Walk into a college library today, and you will see something that feels almost old–fashioned: students sitting quietly together, reading, debating, and working through...
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Mar 6, 2026
Ian Bogost’s recent essay, “The Accidental Winners of the War on Higher Ed,” offers a seductive portrait of small, elite liberal-arts colleges as intimate,...
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Mar 2, 2026
A parent at a girls’ school recently described his daughter to me. A serious athlete, the girl had just come home from a tough loss – a game against a team they had...
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Feb 18, 2026
I watch a lot of basketball.
I watch the college game closely. I watch the pros. I know what elite athletic performance looks like - the speed, the spacing, the spectacle.
But this...
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Feb 10, 2026
Numerous colleges and universities are being investigated by Congress for antisemitism, not because presidents have failed to condemn misconduct, but because too many have learned...
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Feb 5, 2026
We’re loading kids down with scheduled activities and enrichment. They do better with the freedom to explore.
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Feb 3, 2026
Universities across the country are announcing budget cuts, program eliminations, and hiring freezes. The language is familiar: scarcity, constraint, difficult choices. But look...
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Jan 22, 2026
What does that austerity look like in practice?
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Jan 20, 2026
One of the most important intellectual skills a student can learn is also one of the first we train them out of: the ability to say, plainly and without embarrassment, I don't...
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Jan 14, 2026
The Spence School's new Athletic & Ecology Center in Manhattan rises six stories on East 90th Street: an NCAA regulation gymnasium with seating for 500, nine squash courts across...
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Jan 12, 2026
In a recently released conversation hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam, former Harvard president Claudine Gay argued that university leaders have...
May 20, 2026As our nation approaches its 250th birthday, the question is not whether we will mark the occasion. The parades, lectures, and commemorative coins are already in motion. The real...
May 13, 2026I want to say something to the Class of 2026 that Sarah Lawrence College did not say at Commencement. They deserve to hear it plainly. On May 8, 2026, Sarah Lawrence held its 98th...
May 7, 2026At the University of Michigan’s 2026 commencement exercises, history professor Derek Peterson stood before graduating seniors and their families and, as chair of the...
Apr 21, 2026The closing of Hampshire College was not a surprise. It was a long time coming, and its demise reflects a broader shift in what families now expect from higher education. At its...
Apr 14, 2026In recent weeks, the Florida Board of Governors voted to remove introductory sociology from the state’s general education core, setting off predictable outrage across higher...
Apr 8, 2026Observers across the political spectrum have identified a real problem in American higher education: too many campuses have drifted from genuine inquiry toward ideological...
Mar 26, 2026For the better part of a decade, a familiar narrative has taken hold: Young men are adrift—detached from work, disconnected from relationships, and increasingly uninterested in...
Mar 26, 2026A few weeks ago, I was reading about space with my daughter. Like many kids, she’s at that age where curiosity comes easily - where the world still feels open and full of...
Mar 17, 2026The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is now in the spotlight. Recent reporting has documented how the nation’s largest humanities funder has spent years channeling billions into...
Mar 9, 2026Walk into a college library today, and you will see something that feels almost old–fashioned: students sitting quietly together, reading, debating, and working through...
Mar 6, 2026Ian Bogost’s recent essay, “The Accidental Winners of the War on Higher Ed,” offers a seductive portrait of small, elite liberal-arts colleges as intimate,...
Mar 2, 2026A parent at a girls’ school recently described his daughter to me. A serious athlete, the girl had just come home from a tough loss – a game against a team they had...
Feb 18, 2026I watch a lot of basketball. I watch the college game closely. I watch the pros. I know what elite athletic performance looks like - the speed, the spacing, the spectacle. But this...
Feb 10, 2026Numerous colleges and universities are being investigated by Congress for antisemitism, not because presidents have failed to condemn misconduct, but because too many have learned...
Feb 5, 2026We’re loading kids down with scheduled activities and enrichment. They do better with the freedom to explore.
Feb 3, 2026Universities across the country are announcing budget cuts, program eliminations, and hiring freezes. The language is familiar: scarcity, constraint, difficult choices. But look...
Jan 20, 2026One of the most important intellectual skills a student can learn is also one of the first we train them out of: the ability to say, plainly and without embarrassment, I don't...
Jan 14, 2026The Spence School's new Athletic & Ecology Center in Manhattan rises six stories on East 90th Street: an NCAA regulation gymnasium with seating for 500, nine squash courts across...
Jan 12, 2026In a recently released conversation hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam, former Harvard president Claudine Gay argued that university leaders have...