Chronicle Review

15/09/2025

Judith Butler: "On September 4, I received an email from the University of California at Berkeley’s chief legal counsel, David Robinson, informing me that my name has been handed over to the Trump administration in a file containing allegations of antisemitism. "

A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.

10/04/2025

"The general scale of the problem is clear and it is extremely large and difficult to overcome."

Is yours among them?

24/03/2025

Brian Rosenberg: "Perhaps the saddest aspect of this action is its futility: The university has compromised its autonomy and its integrity not for clemency, but — at best — for a stay of ex*****on."

The gravity of the university’s mistake should not obscure our widespread failure.

28/02/2025

"The reasons for pessimism are clear, and these challenges are likely to only intensify in the coming year due to the Trump administration’s actions on higher education and an economy that is likely to slow even without taking the possibility of tariff-fueled inflation into account."

For many, higher ed’s budget crunch is hitting close to home.

19/11/2024

"Professors have always had a tricky relationship to the state. We work within the status quo, powering the powers that be. At the same time, our intellectual pursuits force us to question the status quo, making us a nuisance to the powers that be."

What to expect, and what to do next.

22/10/2024

Revisiting a debate about the role of the critic, two decades on.

10/10/2024

"In focusing so narrowly on the most rarefied class of students from the most exclusive colleges and universities, the quit-lit canon has contributed to a one-sided view of humanities education in the United States, and further obscured what happens on most American college campuses."

Clichés about the decline of the humanities and the despondency of graduate school aren’t the whole story.

22/05/2024

Ousted chancellor Joe Gow: "I knew this day might come, but I didn’t expect it to arrive so quickly."

The University of Wisconsin system took my chancellorship. Now it wants my job.

07/05/2024

"Once the game theory revolution was complete and the textbooks were rewritten, economic theory reached a stage of consolidation and gradually reassumed its traditionally marginal position in the professional landscape." - Ran Spiegler

Once central to the field, it has slipped in prestige.

06/03/2024

“Today, nearly every top-tier U.S. university president or Wall Street hedge-fund manager has more in common with a socialist, European head of state than with the parents at a high-school football game in Waco, Tex. Many elites’ entire identity, it seems, is wrapped up in their sense of superiority over those people.” - The Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025"

The sector isn’t prepared to defend itself.

27/02/2024

"Lilly resolved to extensively test the drug on the animals before he would try it again himself. But he was reassured about the risks, he wrote, when “the six dolphins tested apparently had very good trips.”"

How a 1960s interspecies-communication experiment went haywire.

25/01/2024

"De-bloat the administration is a slogan, not an idea for what higher education should be."

It’s time to acknowledge that progressive aims are in conflict.