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Harvard is Turning Away Teenage Geniuses April 18, 2025
With the Ivy League under fire — from AI, from Trump, from its own students — it may finally be enough for young people to consider alternative paths. At least, that’s the argument at Palantir Technologies....
Can Everyone Be Religious? April 15, 2025
The sharpest and best insight at the core of New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s recent book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, is that religious disaffiliation is effectively the new norm, in practice if not in profession. In other word...
Why Can’t Our Kids Write? April 04, 2025
We need to talk about student writing.For the past decade or so, I have worked with students to help them prepare essays for applications to America’s top colleges and universities. Many of my students have historically matriculated to Ivy League and...
Demystify the Ivies August 28, 2024
Long before Hamas’s attack on Israel last fall, Americans had grown skeptical of their elite universities. The safe spaces, the academic-speak elevating inane ideas, and the cancellations of nonprogressive arguments all suggested institutions adrift....
Where are Today’s Athlete Journalists? August 23, 2024
In my research for a recent article about my favorite journalists of the 20th century, I encountered a pattern I didn’t expect to find: a good number of them were accomplished athletes. Jack Kerouac. Ken Kesey, Norman Mailer. David Foster Wallace. Wi...
Glenn Loury on Economics, Conservatism & Crack Cocaine August 06, 2024
"All you need, besides the cocaine, is a lighter, water, baking soda, some Q-Tips, high-proof alcohol, a ceramic mug, and a piece of cheesecloth or an old T-shirt," writes Glenn Loury in his riveting Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservati...
Normal Kids Get F*cked May 03, 2024
“Armored in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fueled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist horde,” reads a recently launched GoFundMe for the members of Phi Kappa Phi, a fraternity at UNC Chapel...
The Unlikely Rise of the Ivy League Hooper February 27, 2024
One of the coldest hoopers in college basketball moves like a Gen Z influencer. Xaivian Lee has moppy hair, rocks tiny diamond studs in each ear, and saunters around campus – where the combo guard’s fame is quickly rising – clutching a pink hydration...
The Future of Land-Grant Universities February 14, 2024
American universities are in trouble. And no, I don’t mean the troubles in the Ivy League, though these schools are indeed a mess. America’s other—potentially more important—universities also face a crisis. What made the American higher education sys...
