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Letters From the June 17-24, 2019, Issue Letters From the June 17-24, 2019, Issue

A Nation of Elites? Katha Pollitt’s trenchant first-person account of the 1969 student strike at Harvard University [“Harvard’s Strike at 50,” May 20/27] raises a question about Th…

Jun 4, 2019 / Letters

Imani Perry

Imani Perry’s Liberation Feminism Imani Perry’s Liberation Feminism

The African-American studies professor sits down with The Nation to discuss books, Beyoncé, and the radical potential of the academy.

May 29, 2019 / Q&A / Nawal Arjini

Anthony Abraham Jack

Anthony Abraham Jack Wants to Redefine How We Think About College Campus Inequality Anthony Abraham Jack Wants to Redefine How We Think About College Campus Inequality

His new book, The Privileged Poor, examines the way elite colleges and universities welcome, and don’t welcome, students from the working classes. 

May 17, 2019 / Q&A / Edwin Aponte

Football

A Victory in the Case of Braeden Bradforth A Victory in the Case of Braeden Bradforth

Finally, an independent investigation has been opened into the high school football star’s death.

May 16, 2019 / Dave Zirin

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Princeton Students Are Sitting In for Title IX Reform Princeton Students Are Sitting In for Title IX Reform

In many ways, the sit-in serves as the culmination of student outcry over the university’s treatment of sexual-harassment and assault cases.

May 13, 2019 / StudentNation / Jimin Kang

Stanford Campus

One of World’s Wealthiest Educational Institutions May Close Its Renowned Press One of World’s Wealthiest Educational Institutions May Close Its Renowned Press

Stanford University Press is at risk—even though it costs scarcely more than the college football coach’s raise.

May 6, 2019 / Michael Rothberg

Eric Hobsbawm

Chronicling the Age of Hobsbawm: A Q&A With Historian Richard Evans Chronicling the Age of Hobsbawm: A Q&A With Historian Richard Evans

“The more I have read his writings, the more I have come to admire and respect him not just as an historian but as a person.”

Apr 26, 2019 / Sebastiaan Faber

Students protest DeVos

The Real College-Admissions Scandal Is America’s Unjust Financial-Aid Process The Real College-Admissions Scandal Is America’s Unjust Financial-Aid Process

A Title I public-school counselor recounts how systemic barriers punish low-income students who want to go to college.

Apr 24, 2019 / StudentNation / Emmeline Clein

Tommie Smith and John Carlos

San Jose State Will Build a Parking Structure on Hallowed Ground San Jose State Will Build a Parking Structure on Hallowed Ground

By paving a historic track to put up a parking lot, the school is erasing history.

Apr 5, 2019 / Dave Zirin

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Letters From the April 22, 2019, Issue Letters From the April 22, 2019, Issue

Led astray by the third way… Walker’s downfall… Nuclear insanity… Making scammers pay…

Apr 4, 2019 / Letters / Our Readers

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