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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
China’s Spies at Stanford
Chinese law says that its citizens must support its intelligence work. Students who resist can lose their scholarships—and endanger their families.
Garret Molloy and Elsa Johnson
Mississippi Schools Are Better Than Yours
The state’s turnaround really is miraculous. But the rest of the country isn’t interested.
Tim Daly
The Wisdom of The Donald
The president’s advice to graduates at the University of Alabama last week was a self-portrait in motivational guise.
Matthew Continetti
Trump Admin Launches Civil Rights Investigation Into School District at the Heart of Free Press Story
I spent months reporting on a school that accused middle schoolers of a hate crime. Now the district is subject to a civil rights investigation.
Frannie Block
A Fifth of American Adults Can’t Read. Here’s How to Teach Them.
48 million adults in the U.S. read at or below the third-grade level. Some educators think it’s not possible to teach them. They’re wrong.
Larissa Phillips
David Wolpe: Harvard Is Spraying Perfume on a Sewer
What the university’s report offers no solution for is the fact that there is a deep ideological commitment among much of the faculty that is…
David Wolpe
Denounced, Cursed, and Ghosted: What Harvard’s Antisemitism Report Found
‘I’m a Jew and I’ve learned that that is enough to make me no longer worthy of their friendship or even basic kindness at school.’
Maya Sulkin
Qatar and China Are Pouring Billions Into Elite American Universities
Foreign countries such as China and Qatar have poured $29 billion into campuses over the past few years. ‘Hostile powers are buying influence on…
Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin
Rod Dreher: ‘Cry More, Libs’ Is Not a Strategy
These are difficult days for people like me: Americans who back the Trump administration for its determination to fight back against establishment…
Rod Dreher
This Is the Lecture That the Naval Academy Didn’t Want Me to Give
We have gotten to a place where even a basic defense of intellectual freedom is now considered ‘too political’ for a government institution.
Ryan Holiday
Parents to SCOTUS: Don’t Force Our Kids to Read Books on Sexuality
The battle over whether parents can have any say about what their children are taught in schools goes to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Bethany Mandel
Trump Admin to Harvard: Where Is Your Antisemitism Report?
Harvard’s antisemitism task force promised to publish its findings last fall. Months after the deadline, it still hasn’t appeared—and now the federal…
Maya Sulkin
EXCLUSIVE: DHS Cuts Harvard Grants, Threatens Student Visas
Following the administration’s decision to freeze $2.2 billion in contracts, Homeland Security takes its own steps to punish America’s best-known…
Frannie Block
Harvard Had It Coming. That Doesn’t Mean Trump Is Right.
The school is taking a stand for academic freedom. How long will it last?
Charles Lane
Christopher Rufo: The Right Is Winning the Battle over Higher Education
Civil-rights laws have always been a weapon—it’s just that conservatives have finally decided to wield them.
Christopher F. Rufo
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