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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
September 10, 2015
Michael Eric Dyson
Think Out Loud
An emerging black digital intelligentsia has embraced online technology to change American ideas
September 8, 2015
Laura Miller
Lust for Learning
Is erotic longing between professors and students unavoidable?
September 2, 2015
Theodore Ross
Cracking the Cartel
Don’t pay NCAA football and basketball players.
August 31, 2015
Brian Beutler
The Rehabilitationists
How a small band of determined legal academics set out to persuade the Supreme Court to undo the New Deal—and have almost won.
August 14, 2015
Aaron R. Hanlon
The Trigger Warning Myth
Coddled students aren’t the cause of a mental health crisis on campus, they’re just pawns in the culture wars.
July 23, 2015
Jonathan Malesic
I Had the “Least Meaningful Job in America”—and I Loved It
Working as a parking lot attendant helped me become a better person
June 11, 2015
Noah Berlatsky
Professors Do Live in Fear—But Not of Liberal Students
June 8, 2015
Michael A. Cooper Jr.
UNC's Hall of Shame
A Klansman's name has finally been scrubbed from a campus building. Now what?
June 5, 2015
Jason Lane, Kevin Kinser
How Universities Turned Themselves into Global Franchises

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