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Opinion
The Language Wars
Is wokespeak, equity and inclusion talk, and safe speech endangering campus free speech?
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Why Not Use Record Endowment Returns to Promote Equity?
Given their endowments’ soaring value, elite universities have a moral duty to expand access and do more to contribute to the public good.
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Helping Students Become Better Writers
Are cognitive science and psycholinguistics better guides to writing than Strunk and White?
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Institutional Malpractice and Campus Accountability
Holding colleges and universities answerable for academic malpractice.
Opinion
‘Squid Game’ as Allegory and Cultural Critique
What Netflix’s dystopian thriller reveals about the misguided purposes, ethics and direction of elite higher education.
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Opportunity Hoarding at an Elite Private University
It’s time to address elite private universities’ role in maintaining social hierarchy and intergenerational inequality.
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Is Academic Innovation Always a Good Thing?
Innovation and improvement are not the same thing.
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Can Civics Education in Colleges Strengthen Democracy?
Only if it goes well beyond calls to improve civic knowledge, cultivate responsible citizenship and nurture tolerance and civility.