Minding The Campus


  • A Short Letter to College Presidents Concerning AI

    Imagine you are a college president and believe two things. One, an important goal of college is to increase students’ chances of achieving the future they want. Two, artificial intelligence…


  • A Stadium Divided

    A Stadium Divided

    Bad Bunny, academic canonization, and the shrinking of America’s civic commons.

    By now, a small library’s worth of essays has been written about this year’s halftime show. I am late to the matter, admittedly—but as a European living and working in…


  • San Francisco Approves Reparations Ordinance for Black Residents, Providing Race-Based Education Benefits

    In San Francisco, local lawmakers are putting reparations into practice—a set of policy recommendations and legislative changes that have yet to be adopted at the state level. The effort began…


  • UVA Board Should Name Larry Sabato Its New President

    Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published in the Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press. It is cross-posted here with permission.  On June 13, 2017, I published an op-ed in the Charlottesville Daily…


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  • Trump Lowers the Thermostat State

    Trump Lowers the Thermostat State

    Revoking the EPA’s greenhouse gas finding reopens debate over economic tradeoffs, industrial competitiveness, and academia’s embrace of climate orthodoxy.

  • 10,000 PhDs

    10,000 PhDs

    A closer look at the alleged STEM ‘exodus’ reveals not a national emergency, but a government-engineered surplus decades in the making.

  • The Activist Veto

    The Activist Veto

    How identity politics restricts scientific inquiry.

  • “Science Under Siege” Under Siege

    “Science Under Siege” Under Siege

    Michael Mann and Peter Hotez fight an imaginary war on science.

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  • A White-Collar Trade School?

    A White-Collar Trade School?

    A view that college should prepare students for immediate employment is now mainstream across America.

  • Is College Dead—or Just Changing?

    Is College Dead—or Just Changing?

    An ed-tech executive argues higher education must adapt to AI as students and institutions prioritize job-market returns.

  • A Market Test

    A Market Test

    Degrees that don’t deliver face a federal cutoff—just as the job market grows less forgiving.

  • That’s Not Good

    That’s Not Good

    A weak job market awaits recent graduates—and young men are feeling the contraction most.

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