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December 18, 2023
Michael Bérubé
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Jennifer Ruth
It’s Not the University President’s Job to Police Free Speech
A manufactured controversy forced Elizabeth Magill to resign from Penn and continues to hound Harvard’s Claudine Gay. Here’s how it could have been avoided.
December 13, 2023
Paul Waldman
Liz Magill Was Practice. The Right Really Wants to Get Claudine Gay.
These mostly bogus plagiarism charges are the latest blunt weapon in the right’s war on universities as poisoners of young people’s minds.
December 8, 2023
Tori Otten
The Sick Hypocrisy of the Republican Investigation Into College Campuses
The “party of free speech” is trying to strong-arm colleges into squashing peaceful protests.
December 8, 2023
Michael Tomasky
The Real Problem With Those College Presidents? Gross Incompetence.
Yes, Elise Stefanik set a trap. But the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT didn’t have to walk right into it.
June 1, 2012
Timothy Noah
Elizabeth Warren's Counterfeit Scandal
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