Higher Education

New Student Blog New Student Blog

Along with our new look, we're introducing a new blog for StudentNation.

Jun 27, 2008 / StudentNation / The Nation

Bogus Campus Anti-Semitism Bogus Campus Anti-Semitism

Accusations by right-wing Zionists of anti-Semitism at the University of California, Irvine, are suspect at best.

Jun 19, 2008 / Feature / Jon Wiener

Lessons From Columbia ’68 Lessons From Columbia ’68

As Columbia University goes forward with controversial plans to expand into Harlem, alumni mark the fortieth anniversary of explosive student protests.

Apr 29, 2008 / Feature / Jayati Vora

Motzira-Making on the Right Motzira-Making on the Right

The politics of tenure at Barnard and beyond.

Apr 17, 2008 / Column / Eric Alterman

Sweatin’ to the Koran Sweatin’ to the Koran

What do burqas, Osama and fascism have to do with six hours of man-free exercise time at Harvard?

Apr 9, 2008 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Where Credit Is Due Where Credit Is Due

To view education as a profit-making business is to attack the lifelong love of learning.

Apr 3, 2008 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

The Ritual Sacrifice of Samantha Power The Ritual Sacrifice of Samantha Power

A principled academic gets ground up in the media hypocrisy machine.

Mar 20, 2008 / Column / Eric Alterman

Professing Literature in 2008 Professing Literature in 2008

Why is the intellectual agenda of English departments being set by teenagers?

Mar 11, 2008 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz

Repress U Repress U

Surveillance 101: Big Brother goes to college.

Jan 10, 2008 / Feature / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

A Hoax Exposed at Princeton A Hoax Exposed at Princeton

When a strait-laced Princeton student claimed he was attacked by liberal thugs, the conservative establishment rallied around him--until it turned out to be a lie.

Dec 18, 2007 / Feature / Max Blumenthal

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