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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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 
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. 
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shouts & Murmurs

A Pandemic College Essay That Probably Won’t Get You Into Brown

Cultural Comment

A Celebration of the Syllabus

Two scholars argue that the syllabus is an overlooked way to reimagine teaching.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, March 13th

“It’s all there: 1600 in small, marked bubbles.”