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by | Dec 19, 2023

I wrote about Bates College’s first two major leaguers, the first man to score a touchdown on historic Garcelon Field,…

by | Dec 14, 2023

A few columns ago, I addressed the subject of what it takes for one to be “obnoxiously gay,” a description…

by | Dec 14, 2023

Academic dishonesty strikes many people as boring. After all, it is academic. It is not like Sam Bankman-Fried, the “crypto…

by | Dec 13, 2023

“Law, language, literature — these are considerable factors. Common conceptions of what is right and decent, a marked regard for…

by | Dec 10, 2023

I don’t know how much more time we Jews have left in America. Maybe a hundred years. Maybe a thousand…

by | Dec 8, 2023

The University of Notre Dame announced on Monday that Father Robert A. Dowd will assume the role of president of…

by | Dec 8, 2023

We know from history that Jew-hatred, the world’s oldest and once again most fashionable form of bigotry, is the chameleon…

by | Dec 8, 2023

American academics suffered through their most depressing week since Donald Trump’s election — maybe even since the fall of the…

by | Nov 20, 2023

Over the years I’ve had many hard things to say about the ambience of wealth and ambition at Princeton University,…

by | Nov 7, 2023

College enrollments in the humanities have declined, even more than the general fall in the numbers attending college. West Virginia…

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