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.

Michael Eisen says his dismissal was due to his sharing the satirical article.

The new law goes after DEI, certain university degrees, and even how professors can talk about race and gender.

Rich, elite institutions should stop taking donations from the fossil fuel industry immediately, to preserve the integrity of their climate research.

The enormously influential intellectual, who died over the weekend at 79, kept up the fight until the very end.

The Netflix show with Sandra Oh captures an existential crisis.

Even when tenure decisions aren’t influenced by politics, they often exacerbate deep inequalities. And professors who do get tenure are untouchable.

Christopher Chitty’s “Sexual Hegemony” is a galaxy-brain examination of the ways in which markets and sexuality intersect.

Harnessing climate anxiety to help convince others

Expertise matters. But lane-policing is counterproductive.

A study looking at two very similar Tunisian towns, one with union activity and one without, has yielded an interesting idea.

Why are America's elite universities censoring themselves on China?

What a pair of scandals says about a movement that is now being accused of hypocrisy

Julie Schumacher's "The Shakespeare Requirement" is a playful, sharp satire of the horrors of modern academia.

A Russian-American graduate student struggles for authenticity in Keith Gessen’s novel “A Terrible Country.”

How academia exploits the labor—and love—of aspiring scholars

Two recent cases reveal how the structure of American graduate schools enables sexual harassment and worse.

The alt right is appropriating medieval studies and classical scholarship. What can academics do to stop them?

How did literary scholarship take a leftward turn during the 1970s, when neoliberalism and austerity were ascendant?