The Review
The Chronicle’s opinion, analysis, and culture section, with op-eds, book reviews, interviews, letters, scholar profiles, and essays about the ideas and controversies shaping higher education.
The Review | Opinion
The Review | Essay
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
The Review | Essay
Battered by decades of disruption, they are now more frugal and more resilient than elite privates.
Latest Letters
The current financial crisis is not of our making — but we are being handed the bill.
An interview briefly mentioned a revealing diversity statement edit. Here’s the full story.
What happens if we stop investing in language learning, cultural fluency, and global knowledge?
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The Review | Opinion
The university claims it preserved academic autonomy. It didn’t.
The Review | Conversation
As progressive orthodoxy weakens, academe’s most influential conservative warns of a growing illiberalism on the right.
The Review | Opinion
Seeking safety, universities are signing on to the administration’s terms. That’s a mistake.
The Review | Forum
The AAUP’s approach is alienating some supporters. Three leaders explain their thinking.
The Review | Essay
The academy’s latest obsession mistakes political representation for intellectual agility.
The Review | Essay
Peter Singer and the roots of effective altruism.
The Review | Conversation
The prosecutorial culture was “miserable.” She stayed, but has come to regret her silence at the time.
The Review | Opinion
I was told I had to change my course materials, but there was no law to back that up.
The Review | Essay
The namesake of a Stony Brook U. anatomical-sciences award deserves a hard look.
The Review | Essay
An institutional history of the “peculiar institution.”
