Originalism, the school of constitutional interpretation currently modish among conservative lawyers and judges, is not so much an idea as a legal-industrial complex divided into three parts—the academic, the jurisprudential, and the political. In its first part, originalism is an academic pursuit, one that a large number of law scholars have embraced with gusto. A […]
September/October 2024
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A Note on Methodology: Four-Year Colleges and Universities
To establish the set of colleges included in the rankings, we started with the 1,565 colleges in the 50 states and Washington, D.C., that are listed in the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and have a 2021 Carnegie basic classification of doctoral, master’s, and baccalaureate colleges, are not exclusively graduate […]
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Why Professors Can’t Teach
For as long as universities have existed, academics have struggled to impart their knowledge to students. The failing is fixable—if Washington demands it.
