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I’m a Brown University Professor. Half My Students Are Cheating.
What alarmed me most wasn’t the suspected misconduct. It was how reluctant my university seemed to confront it.
Roberto Serrano
Harvard’s Antisemitism Problem Has Gone Underground
Harvard says its Jew-hate problem is under control. But professors and faculty say otherwise in a new letter, arguing that an insidious form of…
Dr. Mark C. Poznansky and  Dr. Jacqueline A. Hart
What ‘The Future Is Female’ Has Meant for Men
And how to lift up the next generation of American boys.
Shilo Brooks
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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.
Svetlana Jitomirskaya
Tough Love: Should My Son Hit a Bully?
A millennial mom has seen a 5-year-old ‘punch, kick, and push my son’ at preschool. ‘What’s hardest for me is what this experience is doing to my…
Abigail Shrier
Walter Isaacson on the Sentence That Created America
And the arguments that shaped the Declaration of Independence.
Shilo Brooks
51M
Conservatives Took Over a Progressive College. What Happened Next?
New College has lots of new professors and students, but campus life feels less like an ideological battlefield than, well, a normal college.
Jonas Du
A Medical Student Took His Own Life. His Parents Blame the School.
After an accusation of wrongdoing and a late-night email from a school dean, Vaibhav Duggal died by suicide. Is the school responsible?
Frannie Block
Scrapping the SAT. Plus. . .
When GLP-1s go wrong. Pastor Ezra Jin’s case takes a dark turn. Why John Steinbeck lives with us still. And more.
The Free Press
The SAT Is Back. But Is There a Better Alternative?
Jeremy Tate thinks the SAT is way too easy—so he invented the Classic Learning Test. He says he’s ‘in a battle to save Western civilization.’
Maya Sulkin
The WWII Novel That Explains America
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jon Meacham breaks down ‘The Winds of War.’
Shilo Brooks
54M
What the Spelling Bee Taught Me About Excellence
I competed in the Scripps National Spelling Bee 10 years ago. It may be the purest meritocracy America has left.
Mitchell Robson
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