These are perfectly implausible times for radical surgery on the academy.

Education is more than vocational training.

A CRB Discussion of Passing on the Right.

Trump undermines the higher education establishment; Clinton mollycoddles it.

The "intersectionality" between Middle East Studies and Black Lives Matter.

Peter Wood looks at the roots of American anger

The rise of campus authoritarianism.

Peter Wood revisits Thoreau and his Walden.

National Association of Scholars President Peter Wood reviews Bill Bennett and David Wilezol's new book on the cost of education.

Books great, near-great, and not-at-all great in the Library of America.