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Bring Back the SAT
California universities dropped the SAT to help low-income and minority students. The policy is doing the opposite.
June 12, 2026
Svetlana Jitomirskaya
Confessions of a Former DEI Officer
Michael Yassa led a DEI office at UC Irvine in 2020. Now he says it was all performative.
May 27, 2026
Maya Sulkin
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Victory for Harvard’s Anti–Grade Inflation Crusader
‘It’s about time,’ says retired professor Harvey Mansfield, who fought the epidemic of too many A’s for over 50 years. Harvard finally agrees.
May 25, 2026
Novi Zhukovsky
Arthur Brooks: How to Give a Commencement Speech That Isn’t Awful
Most graduation speeches are either bland, preachy, or instantly forgotten. Here are four rules for giving one graduates might actually remember.
May 25, 2026
Arthur Brooks
I Go to Cornell. There Is No Reason to Fire Its President.
Michael Kotlikoff is facing backlash after allegedly hitting students while pulling out of a campus event. That’s far from the full story.
May 6, 2026
Noah Farb
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…
April 28, 2026
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.
April 18, 2026
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.
March 15, 2026
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.
March 3, 2026
Olivia Reingold
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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.
February 12, 2026
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.
February 8, 2026
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.
December 15, 2025
Victoria Zang
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