From Allan Bloom’s lecture halls to the Iraq War’s intellectual wreckage, a memoir of how a neoconservative movement insider became a dissenter.
2026 College Guide
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How to Pick a College in the Age of AI
From someone who has spent two decades running universities and the past few years studying how AI is likely to affect them, here is some advice for playing the odds.
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The Internship Apocalypse Is Here
Summer jobs are increasingly pointless, but getting one has never mattered more.
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A Radically Simple Plan to Fix Higher Education
Voters couldn’t be clearer in their demand for greater affordability, with college costs near the top of their list. Here’s how to deliver it.
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Workforce Pell’s Missing Rudder
Congress finally opened Pell Grants to short-term job training. Now states have to build the systems that can tell which programs actually work.
