Opinion

Jonathan Knight writes that it's time for Congress and professors to take on the issue of visa denials to academics.

In the last post, I wrote about Ernest Hemingway’s “Paris 1922” writing exercise, which helped him find his mature style...

Students often tell me the old lie they’ve been told themselves—Hemingway’s prose is simplicity itself. (“What do Hemingway scholars have...

When there are sound reasons, college presidents can eliminate football, writes Maravene Loeschke, who explains how and why she did so.

I was brought up short by the snap of recognition the other day. In classes I often use the late...

The creators of the Collegiate Learning Assessment reply to Trudy W. Banta's essay on measuring general intellectual skills.

When dissident intellectuals in Iran appeal to colleagues in the U.S. for solidarity, the silence is often deafening. Scott McLemee interviews an activist trying to change that.

In one of his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, wrote, "Time is like a river made...