Artificial Negligence

Dennis M. Hogan

Faculty sense that AI could make old-fashioned teaching and learning much more difficult to achieve, if not obsolete.

Foot Soldiers of Financialization

Chris Arnade

We still live in the nation that the yuppies built, to the enduring chagrin of a majority of their fellow citizens.

American Greatness

Jay Tolson

Which form—if any—of American greatness will prevail?

Who Wants to Be a Professor?

Mary Townsend

I can almost remember the first time I noticed professors were a thing.

Current Issue Current Issue: The Fading Promise of Higher Education

The Fading Promise of Higher Education

What does the loss of public faith in higher education look like?


Of Continuing Interest

A selection of articles from the archives

The New Old Ways of Self-Help

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

Not only do we collect multiple experiences, but we really wish to be multiple.

As You Were

Witold Rybczynski

There is nothing unusual about wanting to recreate a destroyed past.

The Myth of the Friedman Doctrine

Kyle Edward Williams

Friedman’s viewpoint went far deeper and has been more lasting than the politics of 1970.

American Captivity

Ed Simon

The captivity narrative is the most American of genres, not just in fostering fear, paranoia, and violence but in contributing to the creation myth of a new variety of person: the American.