What happens when protest culture and antidiscrimination law keep coming into conflict?
Assessing a debate about a controversial hiring practice
How should public institutions in a diverse society treat identity?
An orphan’s unlikely journey from foster care to Yale, and its lessons for the upper crust
Trump brings out the worst in Americans. Nikki Haley wouldn’t.
If reasonable people disengage from politics, the zealots win.
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“It is painful to watch as our once-proud newspaper has become a shell nearly devoid of meaningful content,” one reader says.
A lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in Penn State’s approach to DEI can go to trial, and could shape the future of diversity programs on campus.
Plus: A revisionist history of Beavis and Butt-Head
“I regard pornography as the fast food of sex: A little bit here and there won’t hurt anyone, but it’s not something to consume regularly,” one reader argues.
Plus: Malaise among Americans
Voting age, atheism, abortion, language education, and more
The counterintuitive case for ignoring a university chancellor’s X-rated flicks.
Plus: Is declining fertility a failure of capitalism?
Contending with higher education in America
Plus: An argument for life after death
The identitarian left cannot go on as it did before the attacks.
“I’ll take my kid playing PlayStation all night over getting drunk and driving around, that’s for sure,” one reader says.
“Gender defined every generation until Gen X,” one reader argues. “It has been both challenging and wonderful to see those barriers become more permeable.”