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Public Health

After We Wash Our Hands, What Do We Do Next?

The racist structure of international relations condemns countries like Haiti to cycles of epidemics

May 3, 2023 • by Guilberly Louissaint

Guilberly Louissaint writes about the the racist structure of international relations that condemns countries like Haiti to epidemics....

After We Wash Our Hands, What Do We Do Next?

Education

Political Polarization Threatens American Education

Fighting back against the anti-learning culture wars

April 24, 2023 • by Molly Nolan

State and local governments and right-wing private organizations collaborate closely to both promote state control of education and defund it....

Political Polarization Threatens American Education

Democracy

Are Universities Bad for Democracy?

We need a revolution, not only against how we train students to think but also, “more importantly, against what we, as humans, ultimately are.”

April 12, 2023 • by Benjamin P. Davis

Business schools obviously train students to see the world in terms of commodities. But what about the rest of the university? ...

Higher Ed

A Faculty Union Can Fight for More Than Money

As a strike looms at Rutgers, our model for campus equity centers teaching and learning

March 29, 2023 • by J. Faith Almiron

J. Faith Almiron discusses the unfair treatment of teachers and educators at Rutgers University. Now a strike is looming....

A Faculty Union Can Fight for More Than Money

Europe & Central Asia

Reflections on the collective ‘Russian’ guilt and responsibility

March 20, 2023 • by Maria Stepanova

The war, begun by Russia, had deprived life of all its connective tissue: nothing happening outside Ukraine held any meaning or had any weight....

Uncategorized

What’s the Story at Creative Nonfiction?

A premier journal that pioneered a literary form has gone dark, and readers want to know why

March 1, 2023 • by Vicky Oliver

Was the decades-old, and recently suspended, Creative Nonfiction doomed? Is it even dead? ...

What’s the Story at <em>Creative Nonfiction</em>?

Higher Ed

The American University of Afghanistan and Me

At a moment of tragedy and upheaval, sociologist Jeffrey Goldfarb found new colleagues and students on the internet

February 22, 2023 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Due to unforeseen circumstances, I am teaching at the American University of Afghanistan in exile....

The American University of Afghanistan and Me

Higher Ed

ChatGPT and the myth of meritocracy

February 22, 2023 • by Hannah Leffingwell

ChatGPT is just one symptom of a more severe disease in higher education, namely, the multiple forms of meritocratic thinking......

Higher Ed

Counting the Social Cost of What College Costs

The financial burden of higher education is not an unfortunate accident, nor is it a “fact of life” or a “natural consequence” of going to college

February 15, 2023 • by Lora Burnett

Now many of the students with the most motivation to work towards a more equitable and just society feel the least liberty to do so....

Counting the Social Cost of What College Costs

Why Now?

You Can Never Be Too Rich—Or Too Thin

February 8, 2023 • by Claire Potter and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

If you really want to go back to the origins of American fitness culture, it doesn’t start in a gym as we know it: it starts in circuses and world’s fairs, where these strong men and women are on stage, flexing their muscles, wearing different costumes. ...

<strong>You Can Never Be Too Rich—Or Too Thin</strong>

Multi-Verse

Multi-Verse Episode 7: William Archila on the Flicker of Thought

“Northern Triangle Dissected” and the psychological journeys of Central American minors seeking asylum

December 14, 2022 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In Episode 7 of Multi-Verse, poet William Archila reads and discusses his poem “Northern Triangle Dissected” with host Evangeline Graham, in a conversation about the migration of unaccompanied minors in the wake of the Central American Crisis, and the use of metaphor to convey psychology....

Education

Biden Must Not Bail on Four Million Older Americans

The President is quietly betraying a generation of indebted students

November 15, 2022 • by Chivas Sandage

The fact that representatives referred only to “students” and “young people” suggests that they didn’t yet know it is older Americans who are being abruptly left behind. We were never warned that we could soon be treated as “a separate and unequal class.”...

Education

After We Wash Our Hands, What Do We Do Next?

The racist structure of international relations condemns countries like Haiti to cycles of epidemics

Political Polarization Threatens American Education

Fighting back against the anti-learning culture wars

Are Universities Bad for Democracy?

We need a revolution, not only against how we train students to think but also, “more importantly, against what we, as humans, ultimately are.”

A Faculty Union Can Fight for More Than Money

As a strike looms at Rutgers, our model for campus equity centers teaching and learning

The Russian Question

Reflections on the collective ‘Russian’ guilt and responsibility

What’s the Story at Creative Nonfiction?

A premier journal that pioneered a literary form has gone dark, and readers want to know why

The American University of Afghanistan and Me

At a moment of tragedy and upheaval, sociologist Jeffrey Goldfarb found new colleagues and students on the internet

Why Do Students Cheat?

ChatGPT and the myth of meritocracy

Counting the Social Cost of What College Costs

The financial burden of higher education is not an unfortunate accident, nor is it a “fact of life” or a “natural consequence” of going to college

You Can Never Be Too Rich—Or Too Thin

Multi-Verse Episode 7: William Archila on the Flicker of Thought

“Northern Triangle Dissected” and the psychological journeys of Central American minors seeking asylum

Biden Must Not Bail on Four Million Older Americans

The President is quietly betraying a generation of indebted students

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