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A darkly lit image of four actors on stage during the Studio Theatre’s 2022 production of Will Arbery's "Heroes of the Fourth Turning."

Prepared for Spiritual Warfare

Scott McLemee considers the continuing cultural resonance of Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning.

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Why the NIH Cuts Are So Wrong

Christopher Newfield writes that higher ed has a better counternarrative to share.

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When the Chair-President ‘Marriage’ Goes Sour

Problematic relationships between board chairs and presidents seem to represent a troubling trend, Susan Resneck Pierce writes.

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Opinion

3 Things About AI and the Future of Work

AI will change the workforce our students will enter in unpredictable ways, Cameron Sublett and Lauren Mason write.

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‘What’s Going to Happen to Science?’

The U.S. university-federal partnership is a miracle for global scientific progress. It must be protected, Mary Sue Coleman writes.

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Opinion

Providing More Transparent College Pricing

Prospective students need better pricing information earlier in their college search process, Phillip Levine writes.

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The Big Chill

The federal funding freeze highlights the outsize role academic medical centers play in shaping their institutions, John R. Thelin and Neal H. Hutchens write.

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A Left, Not Libertarian, Defense of Free Speech

Joseph J. Fischel and Kyler Chittick argue that the academic left has ceded too much of the moral high ground when it comes to free speech.