The Ivory Tower Is Dead
A discussion on the rise of the “UniverCity.”
Winter 2025
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The New Black Internationalism
The Movement for Black Lives has developed an incipient internationalist language and vision, with the potential to remap America’s place in the world.
Escape from Adjunct Hell
Academia once seemed to provide an escape from capitalism. Two new novels question the very concept of refuge itself.
Academia After the Pandemic
A roundtable on how COVID-19 has changed American universities.
When Title IX Is Not Enough
Student experiments in DIY justice point to the shortcomings of the current Title IX system in confronting sexual harm on campuses.
A New Deal for Eds and Meds
Organizers now recognize that to remake higher education as a public good, they must fight and win at the national level.
The People United
Occupy Wall Street made the student debt crisis into a political issue. Today, debt relief and the idea of free college are more popular than they’ve ever been in the United States.
The University We Want
Introducing our Fall 2021 special section, “Back to School.”
Toward a Just Food System
A vision of a food system reliant on small family farmers producing local food ignores the necessity of addressing major problems at scale.
Huey P. Newton and the Last Days of the Black Colony
Huey Newton’s shifting political analysis illuminates both the limits and the ongoing relevance of the radicalism of the Black Panther era.
Belarus’s Season of Discontent
By focusing on what distinguishes the Belarusian model from its post-Soviet counterparts, we can better understand the sources of opposition to the Lukashenko government today.
A Mother Alone
Jon Henry’s photography offers the hope that remembrance can spark political change.
The Art of Obstruction
A new art project uses the legal system of mineral rights as a means to block oil and gas extraction.
Solutions for Democratic Decay
A clear understanding of democracy’s first principles makes it easier to assess threats to the system.
Racial Metaphors
If colorblindness rests on the claim that the civil rights movement changed everything, the idea that racism is in our DNA borders on a fatalistic proposition that it changed little or nothing.
