Higher Education

Asking for a Friend: Can I Explain Feminism to My Girlfriend Without Mansplaining?

Asking for a Friend: Can I Explain Feminism to My Girlfriend Without Mansplaining? Asking for a Friend: Can I Explain Feminism to My Girlfriend Without Mansplaining?

Another reader tries to stop her friend’s relentless name dropping.

Mar 3, 2017 / Liza Featherstone

Daniela Vargas’s Detention Shows How Vulnerable DREAMers Are Under Trump

Daniela Vargas’s Detention Shows How Vulnerable DREAMers Are Under Trump Daniela Vargas’s Detention Shows How Vulnerable DREAMers Are Under Trump

When Obama was in the White House, the safest place for young undocumented immigrants was in the public eye. Vargas’s detention shows that’s no longer true.

Mar 2, 2017 / Julianne Hing

Calhoun College

When Does Renaming a Building Make Sense? When Does Renaming a Building Make Sense?

At Yale, the decision to rename a college named after an outspoken defender of slavery was not taken lightly.

Feb 17, 2017 / StudentNation / Dasia Moore

Mario Savio

What Might Mario Savio Have Said About the Milo Protest at Berkeley? What Might Mario Savio Have Said About the Milo Protest at Berkeley?

The 1960s Berkeley Free Speech Movement leader warned that freedom exercised irresponsibly or freedom repressed could “bring disgrace upon our university.”

Feb 7, 2017 / Robert Cohen

Betsy DeVos

The Coming Crusade Against Public Education The Coming Crusade Against Public Education

Secretary of Education–nominee Betsy DeVos has fought to “advance God's Kingdom” by privatizing the public-school system. 

Jan 13, 2017 / Zoë Carpenter

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Letters From the January 30, 2017, Issue Letters From the January 30, 2017, Issue

The kids are all right… A people’s party?… Acting, yes, locally…
A college education… Popularity contest(ed)…

Jan 5, 2017 / Our Readers

Bob Stoops

Bob Stoops and the Geyser Cesspool of College Football Bob Stoops and the Geyser Cesspool of College Football

The 2014 video of Oklahoma University player Joe Mixon breaking the jaw of a female student is exposing, yet again, the rot of college football.

Dec 22, 2016 / Dave Zirin

Minnesota Football Boycott

The ‘Brutal Solidarity’ of the Minnesota Gophers The ‘Brutal Solidarity’ of the Minnesota Gophers

The team called off its Holiday Bowl boycott, but the rally to defend 10 teammates accused of sexual assault has left a stench on campus and beyond.

Dec 19, 2016 / Dave Zirin

UPenn Trump Protesters

In the Wake of Trump, a Black-Student Groundswell In the Wake of Trump, a Black-Student Groundswell

We know, from our history and social-studies and literature classes, the value of peaceful protest and civil disobedience.

Dec 16, 2016 / StudentNation / Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation, Grace Dolan-Sandrino, and Zahri Jackson

Harvard University

Trumpism Poses the Most Dire Threat to Academic Freedom in Recent Memory Trumpism Poses the Most Dire Threat to Academic Freedom in Recent Memory

A shadowy new Professor Watchlist has revived the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s. We must fight back.

Dec 13, 2016 / Erik Loomis

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