College
The Weekend Essay
The Missionary in the Kitchen
I longed for purpose, meaning, the sense of being found. Then, one summer, I sort of was.
By Clare Sestanovich
The Sporting Scene
The Swagger of Caitlin Clark
The N.C.A.A. star has dominated the courts this season, breaking the women’s scoring record, with a conviction that the future is hers and that it comes now.
By Louisa Thomas
Annals of Education
The Debate Over Muslim College Students Getting Secret Marriages
Scholars, students, and campus leaders are rethinking how young Muslims should navigate the world of intimacy.
By Emma Green
Shouts & Murmurs
Welcome to Your Ten-Year Reunion at Fancy College
Let’s all make an effort to handle our liquor a little better at tonight’s Liquored-Up Luau.
By Carlos Greaves
The Political Scene Podcast
An Ivy League Student Accused of Lying About Her Past
Some believed that Mackenzie Fierceton concealed details of her upbringing to get a Rhodes Scholarship. But the truth was more complicated.
Shouts & Murmurs
Dear [School], Here’s My Soul in Six Hundred Words or Less
My greatest obstacle? After sixteen years on a dying planet, it’s definitely this essay.
By Dennard Dayle
Daily Comment
For-Profit Colleges Have Made a COVID-Fuelled Comeback
The Trump Administration trashed a rule that protected students—the Biden Administration can fix that.
By James Lardner
The New Yorker Radio Hour
When Snow Came to Puerto Rico
How did San Juan children have a snowball fight—and why? Plus, a look at how poor students struggle to afford college, even on scholarship.
Shouts & Murmurs
Explore John Pierpont Morgan College
At the core of a liberal-arts education is the ability to think independently within the parameters of what one’s professors have already said.
By Hannah Rowen
Postscript
The Teacher Who Changed How We Teach Writing
Mike Rose popularized a new model of writing instruction that saw students as struggling to do a very difficult thing.
By Kevin Dettmar
On Television
Sandra Oh’s Masterly Performance of Empathy in “The Chair”
The actress, who has made a career out of playing complementary roles, is skilled at working off the energies of those around her. Were this real life, these are precisely the qualities that would make her a good academic chair.
By Hua Hsu
Annals of Activism
Meeting “the Other Side”: Conversations with Men Accused of Sexual Assault
In 2011, I helped launch a movement to aid survivors on college campuses. That meant I also had to think hard about the rights of those under scrutiny.
By Alexandra Brodsky
Annals of Inquiry
Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational?
The real challenge isn’t being right but knowing how wrong you might be.
By Joshua Rothman
Cultural Comment
A Celebration of the Syllabus
Two scholars argue that the syllabus is an overlooked way to reimagine teaching.
By Hua Hsu
Shouts & Murmurs
College Dean’s Message About Last Night’s Heavy-Breathing Party
Regrettably, I received another report, about how, after the party was shut down, an additional group of first-years gathered on the quad to participate in a game of “Share the Backwash.”
By Nate Dern
U.S. Journal
How the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Shattered the Myth of College in America
Young people think of college as an investment in their future. Now that future is changing in ways they can’t apprehend.
By Masha Gessen
Daily Comment
Jefferson, Adams, and the SAT’s New Adversity Factor
Most discussions of admissions to élite colleges are built around the idea that, somewhere around the next bend and soon to make itself apparent, is the right way to do it.
By Nicholas Lemann
The Current
Trump’s Free-Speech Executive Order and the Right’s Fixation on Campus Politics
The right’s victimization narrative has changed little since the nineteen-fifties, even as the conservative movement has come to wield an extraordinary amount of power in American politics and life.
By Osita Nwanevu
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, March 13th
“It’s all there: 1600 in small, marked bubbles.”
By Ellis Rosen