EDUCATION

Suboptimal by Design: On Laura T. Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen’s “Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities”

“Broke” exposes the University of California system as a textbook example of structural racism....

CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD

EDUCATION

In Defense of Facts and Expertise: On Ronald J. Daniels’s “What Universities Owe Democracy”

The project of reinvigorating the critical role of the public university has never been more urgent....

PETER B. KAUFMAN

EDUCATION

Are “The Classics” Bad for You?

Naomi Kanakia tackles the question of whether certain English class Classics - say, Pride and Prejudice - should still be taught in schools....

NAOMI KANAKIA

EDUCATION

We Other Humanists: On Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon’s “Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age”

“Crisis” is both the driving force and the false consciousness of the humanities....

MICHAEL MERANZE

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

Grotesque Inequity: Christopher Newfield on Higher Education

Christopher Newfield on the shift from public to privatized higher education, the imbalance in university funding, and how it's worsening our social crisis....

JEFFREY J. WILLIAMS

EDUCATION

Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “On Leaving”

A transcript of the panel discussion “On Leaving” — a conversation in the Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, which took place on October 14....

SARAH CHIHAYA, ANDREA LONG CHU, K. AUSTIN COLLINS, LAUREN MICHELE JACKSON, CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD

EDUCATION

Toward a Non-Dogmatic Pedagogy: On Susan D. Blum’s “Ungrading”

A collaborative polemic against rating-obsessed structures that inhibit good teaching and real learning....

RYAN BOYD

EDUCATION

A Socialist Alternative to Human Capital Theory?

"The Death of Human Capital?" shows how to overcome the neoliberal capture and monetizing of education....

AASHISH MEHTA, CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD

EDUCATION

The Myth of the Classically Educated Elite

Despite the hype, neither American nor British elites have been particularly cultured....

NAOMI KANAKIA

EDUCATION

A Complicated Relationship: How California’s Community Colleges Educate Future Police and Why Our Curriculum Needs to Change

Can academia and law enforcement occupy the same spaces? And if so, what’s the best way to proceed?...

KEENAN NORRIS, RUBÉN MENDOZA

EDUCATION

POLITICS

The Struggle for Black Education: On Jarvis R. Givens’s “Fugitive Pedagogy”

An outstanding contribution to the history of Black education that focuses on the career of Carter G. Woodson....

RANDAL MAURICE JELKS

EDUCATION

The Promise and Perils of the Academic Social Contract

Sophie Duvernoy takes stock of “Allies and Rivals,” Emily J. Levine’s history of the modern research university....

SOPHIE DUVERNOY

EDUCATION

“Cobbling It All Together”: Mary Helen Washington and Shaun Myers, In Conversation

Mary Helen Washington and Shaun Myers discuss navigating the university environment as Black women....

MARY HELEN WASHINGTON, SHAUN MYERS

EDUCATION

Demographic Realism and the Crisis of Higher Education

Demographics isn’t destiny, it is simply the most recent version of a long line of self-serving administrative ideologies....

DAN NEMSER, BRIAN WHITENER

EDUCATION

Pitching the Discipline

Sebastian Lecourt considers "Humanist Reason," the new book by Eric Hayot....

SEBASTIAN LECOURT

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

CULTURAL STUDIES

What We’re Owed: John Warner on the Future of Higher Education

Ryan Boyd reviews John Warner’s latest book, “Sustainable. Resilient. Free.: The Future of Public Higher Education.”...

RYAN BOYD

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

POLITICS

Meritocracy and Its Discontents: The View from Outside Harvard Yard

Christopher Kutz reviews Michael Sandel's new book, "The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?"...

CHRISTOPHER KUTZ

EDUCATION

POLITICS

College Admissions Fiction and the Asian American Teen Imaginary

Two new YA novels explore the power of meritocratic myths in Asian American life....

KION YOU

EDUCATION

YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

The Beginning of Our Salvation

Aurelian Craiutu finds himself "Lost in Thought," the new book by Zena Hitz....

AURELIAN CRAIUTU

EDUCATION

PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

The Fallacy of American Studies: A Conversation

On xenolinguaphobia and the provincialism of American Studies....

ILAN STAVANS, STEVEN G. KELLMAN

EDUCATION

POLITICS

CULTURAL STUDIES

Meeting “Your Own Inner Middle Schooler”: A Conversation with Judith Warner

Devorah Heitner speaks with Judith Warner about her new book, “And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School.”...

DEVORAH HEITNER

EDUCATION

NONFICTION

Blackademic Lives Matter: An Interview with Lavelle Porter

Patricia A. Matthew interviews Lavelle Porter about his recent book, "The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual."...

PATRICIA A. MATTHEW

EDUCATION

LITERARY CRITICISM

Fraud by Numbers: Metrics and the New Academic Misconduct

UCLA professor of Law and Communication Mario Biagioli dissects how metric-based evaluations are shaping university agendas....

MARIO BIAGIOLI

EDUCATION

REMAKING THE UNIVERSITY

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Racism, Cop Curriculum, and Campus Safety

Why don’t we train police officers in anti-racism?...

KEENAN NORRIS

EDUCATION

LAW

POLITICS

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