Nine students share how the pandemic has affected their studies—and their futures.
September/October 2020
Ecology of the Indoors
Interior spaces deserve as much scientific inquiry as the wilderness.
Stanley Kubrick’s Calculated Rebellion
In his life and in his work, the filmmaker showed that insurgents only win when they sweat the small stuff.
Repeal-Proofing the Biden Administration
As Democrats design their policy agenda, they must think about not just how to get new laws passed, but how to make them durable.
The Politics of Pretension
How the meritocracy bred smugness—and drove voters to Donald Trump.
Libertarians Took Control of This Small Town. It Didn’t End Well.
A new book shows the troubling consequences of Grafton, New Hampshire’s anti-government experiment.
A Note on Methodology: 4-Year Colleges and Universities
To establish the set of colleges included in the rankings, we started with colleges in the 50 states that are listed in the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Then, we winnowed that list to include only the schools that have a 2018 Carnegie basic classification of doctoral, master’s, and baccalaureate […]

