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Can Dartmouth Save the Ivy League?
College president Sian Beilock had protesters arrested, defied faculty, and has said American universities lost their way. They can fix themselves, or…
Jonas Du
Tyler Cowen: College Won’t Get Fixed. But It Also Won’t Disappear.
Colleges are less and less important for education. But their social function will keep the top ones thriving.
Tyler Cowen
Columbia Grad Students Get a Reality Check
The powerful United Auto Workers won’t allow a strike on campus if the grad students’ union clings to its obsession with politics.
Jonas Du
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Holocaust 2.0’ Threat Sent to Stanford Chabad House
Several hateful messages have been sent to Stanford Jews from the same email address, culminating in a warning hours before Purim festivities.
Olivia Reingold and Maya Sulkin
Columbia’s Modern Arab Studies Chair Contenders Have One Thing in Common: Hating Israel
The university says it is committed to ‘balanced’ curricula on the Middle East. Their top candidates tell a different story.
Maya Sulkin
Why I Let Anti-Israel Protesters Interrupt My Talk
I went to Haverford College to talk about history. I ended up teaching my interrupters a lesson I hope they don’t forget.
Haviv Rettig Gur
The Night a Shooter Came to My Campus
I spent Saturday night barricaded in my dorm at Brown University. Two of my classmates are dead.
Victoria Zang
CBS News Presents: A Town Hall with Erika Kirk
I sat down with Erika Kirk to discuss the legacy of her late husband Charlie Kirk, rising political violence, faith, and mending America’s growing…
Bari Weiss
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This Week in Canada: ‘They Don’t Fear Authority Anymore’
Pro-Palestinian protesters barricade Jewish students in a room at their own meeting; a Remembrance Day tribute to an immigrant who became a war hero…
Rupa Subramanya
I’m Betting $100 Million on a New University
The incentive structure of higher education is broken. My gift to the University of Austin is meant to change that—by tying its success to the…
Jeff Yass
Want to See Campus Bias? Open the Syllabus.
We studied millions of college syllabi. Across each issue we found that the academic norm is to shield students from many of our most important…
Jon A. Shields, Yuval Avnur, and Stephanie Muravchik
Long Live the Sorority Girl
I’ve never been on a winning sports team. But I was a Chi Omega, and I imagine it’s the same.
Suzy Weiss
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