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Reagan’s Secretary of Education Joins Qatar’s Payroll
Qatar isn’t backing down in the face of scrutiny. It’s doubling down—on lobbying and American higher education.
Frannie Block
Jed Rubenfeld: The Supreme Court Flubs a Pro-Trump Ruling
An order from the high court allowing the Trump administration to fire Department of Education employees leaves more questions than answers.
Jed Rubenfeld
How to Save Higher Ed—and End the Serial Abuse of American Taxpayers
The American people have been enormously generous to our universities. It is time for schools to honor their end of the bargain.
Christopher F. Rufo
How to Have a Happy Retirement
Coming to terms with being alone is crucial. Solitude is an older person’s need, something that has to be built into a day like all the other…
Gerald Marzorati
How Do You Fix Schools? Teachers Union Says Stop Trump, ICE, and Fascism
The NEA’s president had a lot to say at its annual convention about ‘action that liberates.’ Some union members wanted to hear more about education.
Maya Sulkin
Israeli Researcher Says Stanford Shunned and Sabotaged Him After Hamas Attack
Shay Laps alleges in a lawsuit that his lab results were tampered with and an investigation of him was fabricated.
Maya Sulkin
Is Anyone a Genius?
Helen Lewis on why she thinks genius is a right-wing idea, how Silicon Valley came to fetishize IQ, and why we crave prophets in a godless age.
Bari Weiss
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The Secret of Good Grandparenting
Let your children be the parents they want to be, not the parents you want them to be.
Julie Rose
Suzy Weiss: Admit It, Being an Adult Is Hard
I’m about to turn 30, so I went to an ‘adulting’ class. Plus: Dating apps were never a good idea.
Suzy Weiss
This Week in Canada: The Reeducation of Jordan Peterson
Canada is getting soft on crime, signs of a Trump-Carney bromance at the G7, and much more. Brought to you by Rupa Subramanya.
Rupa Subramanya
I Taught My Students the ‘Iliad.’ Then They Went to War.
Ancient war stories become startlingly modern in classrooms filled with soldiers returning from battle.
Ido Hevroni
EXCLUSIVE: Student Visa Applicants with ‘Hostile Attitudes’ Will Be Told They Can’t Come to the U.S.
The State Department will start reviewing social media ‘to make America and its universities safer.’
Maya Sulkin
Reading, Writing, and Racism: The Three R’s of Philly Public Schools
A history and social studies curriculum asks students to ‘replace’ the national anthem after ‘critically examining race and racism.’
Frannie Block
Letters to the Editor: Anthony Bourdain Is Good for Culture
A retired senior civil servant offers advice for DOGE, and more.
The Free Press
Our Knowledge System Has Collapsed. Can We Survive Without It?
Even as tech gets degraded, people will still need something solid and reliable that will contribute to human flourishing. In fact, they will need that…
Ted Gioia
How to Find the Most Talented People on Earth
Today’s rising stars are younger, weirder, and more geographically concentrated than you might think.
Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen: There’s a Better Way to Fight Harvard
I agree with the critics: The school has become too left-wing. The question is what to do about it.
Tyler Cowen
American Universities Should Put America First
Trump’s moves force all of us to ask: Who is higher education for? And what is its purpose?
Solveig Lucia Gold
Jed Rubenfeld: Trump’s Lawless Attack on Harvard
There is powerful evidence that the White House is punishing the school for fighting back. That’s called retaliation—and it plainly violates the First…
Jed Rubenfeld
Attacking Jews at Harvard Doesn’t Just Go Unpunished. It Gets Rewarded.
Instead of discipline, the students behind an attack that went viral got a fellowship, accolades—and a commencement spotlight.
Johanna Berkman
Letters to the Editor: Three Reactions to Our Ode to Ozempic
Plus: a defense of good cops who see too much of what’s bad in the world, and more.
The Free Press
Is Florida Really Where ‘Woke Goes to Die’?
Santa Ono, Ben Sasse’s likely successor as president of the University of Florida, spent years as a ‘vigorous champion of the whole DEI agenda.’
Maya Sulkin
Everyone’s Using AI To Cheat at School. That’s a Good Thing.
It’s not just the college students. I’m a professor—and these AI models offer keener, smarter, and more thorough suggestions than I do.
Tyler Cowen
Timothy Snyder Spent Years Studying Fascists. He Thinks Trump Is One.
Is the Yale historian a prophet, as his supporters say? Or is he stripping the word ‘fascism’ of its meaning?
Peter Savodnik
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