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Ethical College Admissions: Early Decision De-Commitment
The rules are different, putting counselors in an awkward situation, writes Jim Jump.
The Angry Brigade
Scott McLemee reviews a crop of upcoming books focused on anger.
Simple Fixes for Income-Driven Repayment
Income-driven repayment plans are a crucial safety net for student loan borrowers, but they include well-known design flaws. Jessica Thompson and Michele Streeter write about bipartisan solutions to improve the plans.
What Took the Place of Western Civ?
What appeared during the 1980s to be an invigorating and just revision of a narrow curriculum has turned out to be no curriculum at all, writes Mark Bauerlein.
Ethical College Admissions: Legacy Preferences
Is it time to end them or extend them? Jim Jump considers the issues.
An Invitation to Our Watchers
The recent debate that a Martin Luther King Jr. Day writing contest has engendered does not render efforts at diversity, equity or inclusion irrelevant or bankrupt, Tobin Miller Shearer, the chair of the contest committee, writes.
Of Love
In his review of Eric Schwitzgebel's A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures, Scott McLemee also focuses on love.