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‘More Weight’: An Academic’s Guide to Surviving Campus Witch Hunts

When you are being targeted by aggression, hostility, and hatred, a natural impulse is to want to fight back as hard as possible, and exact revenge.

Dorian S. Abbot

5 Feb 2021 · 8 min read

Why Is Biden Trying to Punish Charter Schools for Their Success?

Charter schools are publicly funded institutions that charge no fees and have more flexibility than regular government schools in how they manage their affairs and run their programs.

Greg Ashman

29 Jan 2021 · 7 min read

The Value of Knowledge

When we value skills over knowledge, we get doctors who can’t name a supreme court justice.

Daniel Buck

22 Jan 2021 · 10 min read

COVID Has Forced Teachers to Confront Longstanding Problems—And Education Will Never Be the Same

Teaching online and in-person concurrently is disorienting, and I spend the day fearful that I am doing a disservice to both groups.

Joshua Pauling

18 Jan 2021 · 8 min read

Degree Requirements for Police Officers Will Not Make Us Safer

Relegating police training to outside universities smacks of duty shirking; it should be the responsibility (and purview) of police departments to train law enforcement professionals effectively.

Nicholas Sharrer

16 Jan 2021 · 12 min read

Higher Education Risks No Longer Being Worth It – Here’s How to Change Course

The fact that higher education is suffering from the pandemic is not surprising—every sector has been affected one way or another.

Christos A. Makridis

28 Dec 2020 · 6 min read

A Student Mob Took Over Bryn Mawr. The College Said Thank You

Anyone who sought to attend class, go to the dining hall, or even turn in schoolwork was denounced as a “scab,” and often faced acts of bullying.

Minnie Doe

27 Dec 2020 · 10 min read

The Question of Affirmative Action: An Interview with Glenn Loury

Education was not equal in 1930 for blacks and whites, nor in 1950, nor in 1970 for that matter.

Michael Sandel and Glenn Loury

16 Dec 2020 · 19 min read

On Activist Scholarship: An Interview with Helen Pluckrose

The universities are also where rigorous research, science, and valuable knowledge production continues to happen, and it is the universities we will need to push back at this and self-correct.

Jason D. Hill

16 Dec 2020 · 8 min read

In a recent essay entitled “The Resentment That Never Sleeps,” New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall explains how a lowering of social status among non-college-educated white Americans has increased that demographic’s anxiety and helped fuel the populism that made possible Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency. Reporters

Kevin Mims

15 Dec 2020 · 10 min read

What Is #DisruptTexts?

The disrupters rely on rhetorical devices such as replacing the passive “under-represented” with the active “marginalized,” “erased,” and “excluded.”

Lona Manning

9 Dec 2020 · 9 min read

Black and White in the Classroom

I also needed to say that they had it all wrong, that the white privilege they were arguing about was actually opportunity and nothing else.

Lola Jean Benjamin

7 Dec 2020 · 4 min read

Race and Social Panic at Haverford: A Case Study in Educational Dysfunction

Not so long ago, one might have been able to count on the naturally oppositional reflexes of young adults as a counterbalance to this kind of crowdsourced social panic.

Jonathan Kay

1 Dec 2020 · 24 min read

I’m a Professor from an Immigrant Family. Please Stop Telling Me That My University Is Racist

What’s worse, anyone who points out the nonsensical and performative aspects of these presidential letters will be gaslit for his troubles—this, in a supposed citadel of logic and learning.

Theodore Pennington

29 Nov 2020 · 7 min read

Shoulders of Giants

Concepts do not have a fixed lifespan. Some concepts are more enduring than others because they have more value.