Aaron R. Hanlon

@AaronRHanlon

A college professor explains the real causes of a hotly debated phenomenon.

Its president ignored the warning signs about declining enrollment. Now WVU is deeply in debt, in thrall to market-worshipping consultants, and cutting a shocking number of programs and faculty.

Advanced Placement courses are no recipe for igniting the intellect beyond high school. They’re a recipe for extinguishing it.

Generation Z is struggling. Is it because they’re too “fragile,” as some pundits claim, or because universities are increasingly acting like human resources departments?

Bari Weiss and other self-anointed defenders of free speech used the author’s stabbing to accuse the left of rhetorical excess—and ignored the very relevant scourge of book-banning by the American right.

Niall Ferguson, Bari Weiss, and others are creating a new university as an antidote to campus illiberalism. It’s a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.

The real intellectual crisis in higher education is not over free speech, but the quality of speech.

The intimidation campaign against me after I appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show is all too common. I kept my college teaching job, but other professors aren't so lucky.

Disinviting right-wing provocateurs isn't a suppression of free speech. It's a value judgment in keeping with higher education's mission.

Conservative speakers like Milo Yiannopoulos and Charles Murray are rewarded for provocation, not quality of thought.

Progressive columnist Nicholas Kristof's new hobbyhorse only contributes to the enduring strain of anti-intellectualism in American politics.

The issue is real; solutions are few. Here are four rules we should agree on.

What Michael Bloomberg and Charles Koch really mean when they say colleges are "stifling free speech."

How anti-P.C. activists use misleading rhetoric to dismiss serious problems.

Coddled students aren’t the cause of a mental health crisis on campus, they’re just pawns in the culture wars.