2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (971+ words) On the lost art of association—and how to recapture it Illustrations by Sol Cotti On a summer evening in 2024, two bullets pierced the walls of our home in Washington, D.C. One shattered the leg of my writing desk, where…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (336+ words) The ideology masquerades as scholarship. Today, we’re looking at social activism at New College of Florida, high gas prices in California, and broken trust in higher education. Write to us at [email protected] with questions or comments. Now, on to the…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (553+ words) Activist ideology masquerading as scholarship persists, giving the school’s board the opportunity to act. Laws can close academic departments and impose subject-area bans on paper, but campuses are still run day-to-day by faculty and administrators who may not be interested…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (428+ words) The People’s Conference for Palestine put academic radicalism on full display. The conference’s “guiding principle” was “Gaza is our compass.” UCLA professor Loubna Qutami, a cofounder of the Palestinian Youth Movement and a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, expanded…...