Minding The Campus
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Artificial Intelligence →
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A Short Letter to College Presidents Concerning AI
Encourage campus-wide adoption, require AI-assisted final projects, and make AI fluency central to the undergraduate experience.
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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.
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Dear Professors, Stop Using AI
Students are rebelling against a one-way standard on AI in higher education.
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The AI Critic
A method for using AI to analyze and critique academic work.
Campus Culture →
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What the Ivy League Is Really Selling
Not a better education, but elite social formation.
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Selling Sex, Digitally
Economic pressure and institutional culture have combined to make digital sex work an income strategy for many female college students.
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Where Did All the Good Students Go?
From where I’m standing, they’re sitting at home in front of their computer screens.
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Christmas on Campus
Christmas survives on campus only once it’s stripped of meaning and guaranteed to offend no one.
China →
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Chinese University of Michigan Researcher Deported for Biopathogen Smuggling
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Is America the Only Country That Won’t Take Campus Espionage Seriously?
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America’s Unipolar Moment Is Coming to an End—Its Universities Must Adapt to the Rising Multipolar Order
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Trump’s China Pivot Hurts America in Every Way
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion →
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A Stadium Divided
Bad Bunny, academic canonization, and the shrinking of America’s civic commons.
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San Francisco Approves Reparations Ordinance for Black Residents, Providing Race-Based Education Benefits
City proposes $5 million payments to black residents, student loan cancellation, an HBCU campus, and compensation for teaching a ‘white supremacy curriculum.’
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Lawsuit Alleges Cornell Pursued a ‘Diversity Hire’
The lawsuit is one of many targeting race-based practices in the post–affirmative action era.
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Whiplash
Education reforms achieved through executive blitzes reverse quickly when political power changes hands.
Foreign Students →
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Universities Push Sanctuary Campus Agenda for Illegal Immigrants
Illegal migrant enrollment helps universities meet demographic thresholds associated with preferential public funding.
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What the New International Enrollment Drop Really Shows
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Chinese University of Michigan Researcher Deported for Biopathogen Smuggling
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Trump’s Social Media Vetting Faces Free Speech Backlash. But Some Foreign Students Agree with Him.
Sciences →
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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.
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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.
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The Activist Veto
How identity politics restricts scientific inquiry.
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“Science Under Siege” Under Siege
Michael Mann and Peter Hotez fight an imaginary war on science.
Workforce Pipeline →
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A White-Collar Trade School?
A view that college should prepare students for immediate employment is now mainstream across America.
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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.
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A Market Test
Degrees that don’t deliver face a federal cutoff—just as the job market grows less forgiving.
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That’s Not Good
A weak job market awaits recent graduates—and young men are feeling the contraction most.



