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Nov 13, 2025
After I published a reflection on Vice President Dick Cheney’s passing, one of my former students—now at Brown University—sent me a note that stopped me...
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Nov 6, 2025
Higher education's latest moral compact shows how far it has drifted from real inquiry.
Earlier this fall, the president of Sarah Lawrence College shared that the school had signed...
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Nov 5, 2025
The ideal of academic freedom has always rested on a simple promise: scholars must be free to pursue truth, wherever it leads. But new data from the Foundation for Individual Rights...
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Oct 30, 2025
The debate over “viewpoint diversity” has moved from faculty lounges to legislatures and boardrooms.
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Oct 23, 2025
In the years since Hamas’s October 7 attack, America’s universities have become moral barometers, and many have failed the test. At Columbia, encampments replaced...
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Oct 6, 2025
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) recently published an essay in its flagship magazine, Academe, titled “Seven Theses Against Viewpoint...
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Sep 30, 2025
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently ran a piece that offers a beautiful and evocative snapshot of intellectual life at its best. Its authors, Khafiz Kerimov and Nicholas...
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Sep 22, 2025
Every morning, millions of students start their day the same way: roll over, reach for the phone, and open a social media app. Scroll. Snap. Like. Post. Repeat.
It feels natural;...
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Sep 12, 2025
For years, Kirk warned that escalating antisemitism spreading across campuses was not simply about free expression. His death tragically proves the point: Rhetoric has turned lethal.
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Sep 3, 2025
Harvard College has a grade inflation problem. But beneath it lies a deeper scandal: the faculty who have allowed, and even encouraged, the decay.
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Aug 29, 2025
On today’s campuses, evidence itself is too often branded as hostility. Research that once sparked debate now risks being dismissed as “harm.” At Sarah Lawrence...
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Aug 15, 2025
When the semester begins, my classroom fills with anticipation and nerves—mine included. Every term offers a chance to start fresh, build habits, and forge relationships that...
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Aug 8, 2025
“I’m going to be in debt for my whole f---ing life. How does that even make sense? I signed up for this s--- when I was 17. This should not be legal.”
That’s...
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Aug 7, 2025
What can we make of a new Brandeis University study suggesting that few college faculty are hostile to Israel or Jews despite clear evidence of a campus climate that feels profoundly...
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Jul 2, 2025
Harvard Government Department professors Ryan Enos and Steven Levitsky recently warned in The Harvard Crimson that if Harvard negotiates with the Trump administration to restore...
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Jun 12, 2025
The summer recess has only just begun. Before taking their much-needed break, professors are beginning to plan for their fall courses, and this year is shaping up to be a real...
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May 29, 2025
The work of Isabel Wilkerson is a favorite in Harvard faculty circles, yet many have forgotten or ignored a key lesson of her book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. In her...
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May 5, 2025
A graduate student I have worked with over the past year recently emailed me, sharing the exciting news that he will be teaching a course this fall. Being able to design and teach...
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Apr 10, 2025
Last week, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) wrapped up their “Week of Rage,” a week-long series of programs intended to intimidate and threaten those...
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Apr 4, 2025
In the winter of 2024, the U.S. Department of Education announced that an investigation is underway at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) over its anti-Semitic environment.
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Feb 14, 2025
In line with a national push to remove cell phones in schools and a national discussion about social media and its impact on teens and their health and development, New York...
Nov 13, 2025After I published a reflection on Vice President Dick Cheney’s passing, one of my former students—now at Brown University—sent me a note that stopped me...
Nov 6, 2025Higher education's latest moral compact shows how far it has drifted from real inquiry. Earlier this fall, the president of Sarah Lawrence College shared that the school had signed...
Nov 5, 2025The ideal of academic freedom has always rested on a simple promise: scholars must be free to pursue truth, wherever it leads. But new data from the Foundation for Individual Rights...
Oct 30, 2025The debate over “viewpoint diversity” has moved from faculty lounges to legislatures and boardrooms. 
Oct 23, 2025In the years since Hamas’s October 7 attack, America’s universities have become moral barometers, and many have failed the test. At Columbia, encampments replaced...
Oct 6, 2025The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) recently published an essay in its flagship magazine, Academe, titled “Seven Theses Against Viewpoint...
Sep 30, 2025The Chronicle of Higher Education recently ran a piece that offers a beautiful and evocative snapshot of intellectual life at its best. Its authors, Khafiz Kerimov and Nicholas...
Sep 22, 2025Every morning, millions of students start their day the same way: roll over, reach for the phone, and open a social media app. Scroll. Snap. Like. Post. Repeat. It feels natural;...
Sep 12, 2025For years, Kirk warned that escalating antisemitism spreading across campuses was not simply about free expression. His death tragically proves the point: Rhetoric has turned lethal.
Sep 3, 2025Harvard College has a grade inflation problem. But beneath it lies a deeper scandal: the faculty who have allowed, and even encouraged, the decay. 
Aug 29, 2025On today’s campuses, evidence itself is too often branded as hostility. Research that once sparked debate now risks being dismissed as “harm.” At Sarah Lawrence...
Aug 15, 2025When the semester begins, my classroom fills with anticipation and nerves—mine included. Every term offers a chance to start fresh, build habits, and forge relationships that...
Aug 8, 2025“I’m going to be in debt for my whole f---ing life. How does that even make sense? I signed up for this s--- when I was 17. This should not be legal.” That’s...
Aug 7, 2025What can we make of a new Brandeis University study suggesting that few college faculty are hostile to Israel or Jews despite clear evidence of a campus climate that feels profoundly...
Jul 2, 2025Harvard Government Department professors Ryan Enos and Steven Levitsky recently warned in The Harvard Crimson that if Harvard negotiates with the Trump administration to restore...
Jun 12, 2025The summer recess has only just begun. Before taking their much-needed break, professors are beginning to plan for their fall courses, and this year is shaping up to be a real...
May 29, 2025The work of Isabel Wilkerson is a favorite in Harvard faculty circles, yet many have forgotten or ignored a key lesson of her book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. In her...
May 5, 2025A graduate student I have worked with over the past year recently emailed me, sharing the exciting news that he will be teaching a course this fall. Being able to design and teach...
Apr 10, 2025Last week, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) wrapped up their “Week of Rage,” a week-long series of programs intended to intimidate and threaten those...
Feb 14, 2025In line with a national push to remove cell phones in schools and a national discussion about social media and its impact on teens and their health and development, New York...