Innovation for What? The Politics of Inequality in Higher Education
Today’s embrace of “innovation” in higher ed advances the interests of the business elite over those of educators or students.
Spring 2025
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The Plutocratic Imagination
Books discussed in this essay: A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan, Knopf, 2010, 288 pp. A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s, 2012, 328 pp. Then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris, Little, …
Occupy’s Statement on Student Debt
Jeffrey Williams: Occupy’s Statement on Student Debt
Chipping Away at Student Debt
Jeffrey Williams: Chipping Away at Student Debt
What a New Play Says About Higher Education
J. Williams: A Seminar on Broadway
Occupying Student Debt
Jeffrey Williams: Occupying Student Debt
Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing
Jeffrey Williams: Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing
The Shell Game of Higher Education Funding
Jeffrey Williams: The Shell Game of Higher Education Funding
Student Debt Reform
Jeffrey Williams: Student Debt Reform
How to Be an Intellectual: The Cases of Richard Rorty and Andrew Ross 
In the Fall 1991 issue of Dissent, Richard Rorty published an essay called “Intellectuals in Politics.” It was not a profile of model figures but something of a jeremiad, castigating American intellectuals for their disconnection from politics and standing by …
The Squeeze on British Higher Education
Jeffrey Williams: The Squeeze on British Higher Education
The Culture of Disgruntlement
Jeffrey Williams: The Culture of Disgruntlement
Universities and the Perils of Philanthropy
Jeffrey Williams: Universities and the Perils of Philanthropy
Universities and Taxes
Jeffrey Williams: Should Universities Be Taxed More?
New Left Review at Fifty
Jeffrey Williams: New Left Review at Fifty
