Education
2019 was not a good year for freedom of speech
Is everything rosy in the groves of academe?
The real reason for college food fights
Scarcely a month passes without a food-related scandal causing uproar on campus
Why is there more intellectual freedom in Bucharest than Cambridge?
The students in Romania were doing what students are supposed to do: hearing each side of the argument
How to converse with know-it-alls
Exposing the Unread Library Effect
Finally, the transracial community are gaining recognition
All thanks to a British higher education union
Asians are doing too well — they must be stopped
The Asian American success story catastrophically undermines the assumptions behind affirmative action
A journalism lesson from Northwestern
While the student journalists deserve criticism, they might benefit from some sympathy as well
Ben Shapiro and the extreme nonsense of the horseshoe theory
It brings no fortune and a great deal of confusion
Andrei Serban and the importance of acting out
His style of hands-on direction — honest critique without regard for feelings or compassion — led students to serious artistic breakthroughs
Why are young people so left-wing?
Left-wing professors think it’s their responsibility to open their students’ eyes to injustice
Where are world leaders educated?
The US has just overtaken Britain in the number of world leaders educated at the country’s universities
Colleges should be ‘islands of excellence’
Scarcely a month passes without some distinguished professor being targeted for defenestration
Harold Bloom, the Falstaff of lit crit
Bloom was a working-class Jew from the Bronx who, like Saul Bellow, had autodidactified himself to the gills despite being in the university
Grade A: what Adderall has taught me
‘Come to think of it, no. I’ve never had a patient, once prescribed, go off them’
Dear journalism students…
Here’s how to make it in the media
Homework for the climate strikers
Does scientific evidence support the notion that ‘the Earth is dying’?
Andrew Yang, Asian stereotypes and the discomforts of reality
We are highly averse to even remotely acknowledging differences in group outcomes, even when it comes to positive ones
Are college campuses eroding free speech?
University officials and libertarian columnists clash in DC debate
Woke history is making big inroads in America’s high schools
The cleansing power of ethnic studies
The Oscar goes to Felicity Huffman
The Desperate Housewife is down with a case of the Varsity Blues
Novel advice for incoming STEM freshmen
Students interested in a career in investing and technology should read more fiction
The abject stupidity of the Arnautoff murals debacle
Don’t blame snowflakes – grown-ups are the idiots
When will American schools catch up with the technological revolution?
Children in kindergarten or middle school today are likely to be educated for a world that will largely have disappeared by the time they graduate
In defense of Amy Wax
Too many foolish people have too much invested in believing the worst about the Penn Law professor
I’m starting a trade union for intellectuals
Someone should go in to bat for academics if they’re targeted by an outrage mob
