Education

The Captive Mind The Captive Mind

Since September 11, we've heard a lot about the "intelligence failures" that left the United States unprepared for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Mar 17, 2005 / The Editors

Teachers for Peace Teachers for Peace

Educators share strategies for opposing the war.

Mar 16, 2005 / Feature / Lauren Bans

The Mideast Comes to Columbia The Mideast Comes to Columbia

The current battle is the latest in a larger, ideologically driven conflict.

Mar 16, 2005 / Feature / Scott Sherman

A Student Bill of Fights A Student Bill of Fights

The right takes aim at the ivory tower--brandishing a new legislative agenda.

Mar 16, 2005 / Feature / Kevin Mattson

The New PC The New PC

They claim liberals are victimizing them.

Mar 16, 2005 / Feature / Russell Jacoby

Free-Speech Fights Free-Speech Fights

Rummaging through Yale University's library shelves in early 2001 to prepare a talk on news media and genocide, I came across a study of nineteenth-century Colorado newspapers by...

Feb 17, 2005 / Bruce Shapiro

Power and the Word Power and the Word

A few weeks ago, if you recall, Britain's Prince Harry was having himself a high old time at a Colonials and Natives party to which he came costumed as a Nazi officer.

Feb 10, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Summers of Our Discontent Summers of Our Discontent

As the saying goes, behind every successful woman is a man who is surprised. Harvard president Larry Summers apparently is that man.

Feb 3, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Ward Churchill and the Mad Dogs of the Right Ward Churchill and the Mad Dogs of the Right

When it comes to left and right, meaning the contrapuntal voices of sanity and dementia, we're meant to keep two sets of books.

Feb 3, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Shrieking Violets Shrieking Violets

There I was, in the basement of the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, enjoying a private tour of the place.

Jan 27, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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