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Is Beauty a Lost Art?

Is aesthetic value vanishing from everyday life?

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A Valentine’s Day Card Without the Love

The Feb. 14 Dear Colleague letter features some questionable assumptions and false equivalences, Jim Jump writes.

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Opinion

The Attempt to Destroy Columbia

The Trump administration has the symbolic fight it wants, Brian Rosenberg writes.

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Going Independent

How can Ph.D.s decide if a freelance or independent consultant path is right for them? Jessica Taylor and Desiree Barron-Callaci offer insight.

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What If 2% of a Harvard Gift Went to an HBCU?

With higher ed facing a hostile political climate, rich colleges should share their wealth with needier institutions, Eric Weinberger writes.

Sacrifice’s Enduring Logic

Unmasking the persistence of the sacrificial impulse in contemporary society.

The acronym "DEI" in large black 3-D letters next to a judge's gavel.

Anti-DEI Rhetoric Does Not Equal Legal Reality

The anti-DEI movement sounds like a row of cannons, but its legal attack is a rifle shot based on one provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Dan Currell writes.

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Making Sense of Social Security

Timing is critical in deciding when to draw Social Security benefits, Alexander Aldrich writes.