Category: Education

Evening News: November 14, 2022 Epoch Times-Appeals Court Rules Against Biden Administration’s Student Loan Forgiveness Program

November 14, 2022 TODAY IN HISTORY Herman Melville publishes “Moby-Dick” 1851 TOP NEWS Judiciary Appeals Court Rules Against Biden Administration’s Student Loan Forgiveness Program Share*             READ MORE Cryptocurrency Relationship Among FTX, Ukraine, and Democrats Sparks Speculation Share*           […]

The Racism in Textbooks

New York Review of Books Eric Foner The Complicity of the Textbooks In Teaching White Supremacy, Donald Yacovone traces how the writing of American history, from Reconstruction on, has falsified and illuminated our racial past. Dan Chiasson Rococo Risks With Venice, her latest collection of poems, Ange Mlinko offers an […]

Thank god we’re finally addressing the plight of America’s most disadvantaged community, Harvard Law graduates

By David Burge Thank god we’re finally addressing the plight of America’s most disadvantaged community, Harvard Law graduates Lawrence Tribe is University Professor Emeritus and former Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Fucking Law School. He’s the one saying “thousands of my former students” are making less […]

On Loans

New York Review of Books In October 2011 Jeff Madrick wrote a dispatch from Zuccotti Park for the Review. Three weeks after protesters had first converged there under the banner “Occupy Wall Street,” he found that the movement—initially mocked in the media for its youth and unseriousness—was coming […]

Abolish the PhD

  (Freeman Dyson, from this interview) “Oh, yes. I’m very proud of not having a Ph.D. I think the Ph.D. system is an abomination. It was invented as a system for educating German professors in the 19th century, and it works well under those conditions. It’s good for […]

Don’t Cancel Student Debt

By Emma Camp and Danielle Thompson, Reason For many of the 43 million Americans weighed down by student loan debt, making their monthly payments is a major drag on their lives. About a third of undergraduates going for a bachelor’s degree are either dropping out or taking more […]

Stanford’s War on Social Life

By Ginevra Davis Palladium JP’s favorite college story is the night he built an island. In the fall of 1993, JP was a junior in Stanford’s chapter of Kappa Alpha. The brothers were winding down from Kappa Alpha’s annual Cabo-themed party on the house lawn. “KAbo” was a […]

David Goodhart On Overvaluing Smarts

By Andrew Sullivan, Weekly Dish The British writer talks about the moral tensions of the modern economy. David Goodhart is a British journalist. In 1995 he founded Prospect, the center-left political magazine, where he served as editor for 15 years, and then became the director of Demos, the […]