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Higher Education
July 7, 2016
Clio Chang
Hillary’s Education Policy Is Too Clever by Half
By positioning herself to the right of Bernie Sanders, she may have shot herself in the foot.
May 26, 2016
Donald E. Heller
Trump’s Proposals Could Lock Poor Students Out of College
Why re-privatizing loans would be a disaster.
May 17, 2016
Aaron R. Hanlon
The “Free Speech” Charade
What Michael Bloomberg and Charles Koch really mean when they say colleges are "stifling free speech."
April 26, 2016
Aaron R. Hanlon
What the P.C. Left Is Doing Wrong in Language Debates
March 30, 2016
Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, Amna Khalid
The Rise of “Bias Response Teams” on Campus
Colleges across America are creating shadowy groups to handle complaints. Will they end up muzzling students instead?
March 21, 2016
Clio Chang
Illinois’s public and community colleges are in danger of closing.
February 12, 2016
Adam Peck
This university compares at-risk students to cuddly bunnies, and has a plan to eliminate them.
January 22, 2016
Aaron R. Hanlon
College Students Aren’t “Cuddly Bunnies”
How anti-P.C. activists use misleading rhetoric to dismiss serious problems.
December 23, 2015
Aaron R. Hanlon
Oberlin’s Food Isn’t “Cultural Appropriation.” That Doesn’t Mean the Students Are Wrong.
December 22, 2015
Gabriel Snyder
New Republic: Best of 2015
December 7, 2015
David H. Gans
Up Next at the Supreme Court: A Challenge to Equality for All Americans
A legal mastermind seeks to gut affirmative action and voting rights by rewriting the Fourteenth Amendment
December 2, 2015
Nader Habibi
America Has an Overeducation Problem
November 30, 2015
Ryan Kearney
Yet another Texas university will remain a gun-free zone.
November 3, 2015
Maggie Doherty
The Vanished World of Stoner
A young professor reflects on John Williams’s cult novel on its 50th anniversary.
October 21, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Is Sex Serious? College Women Won’t Be Satisfied Until They Decide.
October 15, 2015
The New Republic
"Think Out Loud," Hosted by the New Republic
A discussion about the "black digital intelligentsia" that is changing American thought
October 6, 2015
The New Republic Staff
How Many Hours Would It Take You to Work Off Today’s College Tuition?
October 5, 2015
Matt Bruenig
The Case Against Free College
Free college is paid for by the working class people who don't attend
September 28, 2015
Fredrik deBoer
College Students Have Forgotten How to Fight the System
Wesleyan activists' response to a newspaper column on Black Lives Matter reflects a broader, worrying shift on campuses
September 14, 2015
Arthur Goldhammer
Stanley Hoffmann Was One of the Great Professors of Our Time

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