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Two scholars of higher education buck the negative tide.
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Disrupting Harvard?
Will new technologies and new academic models upend elite selective schools?
6.16.11
Colleges in Crisis
Disruptive change comes to American higher education
6.16.11
Time to Electrify
Reducing our dependence on imported oil—while addressing the threat of climate change
6.16.11
“A Nation Arguing with Its Conscience”
Deliberative democracy, philosophical pragmatism, and Barack Obama’s conception of American governance
10.19.10
In the Wake of War
Father and son, lawyer and philosopher debate torture, surveillance, and presidential power
8.19.10
Forum: On Caregiving
A scholar experiences the moral acts that come before—and go beyond—modern medicine.
7.1.10
The Pay Problem
Time for a new paradigm for executive compensation
5.1.10
The Ph.D. Problem
On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal
11.1.09
An Ounce of Prevention
Financial regulation, moral hazard, and the end of “too big to fail”
9.1.09
Reopening the Doors to College
The United States must refresh the marriage of excellence and opportunity that characterizes American higher education at its best, argue sociologists Theda Skocpol and Suzanne Mettler.
3.1.09
The Economic Agenda
Challenges facing the next president
9.1.08
Greening China
Market-based policies for air-pollution control
9.1.08
Making Credit Safer
It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it is possible to…
5.1.08
Saving Money, Oil, and the Climate
The United States is in urgent need of a comprehensive, rational, and—above all—honest policy to guide its energy future, a policy…