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Ruling class: commencement at Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2003

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Markovits’s picture of American meritocracy is so lurid, so inexorably dark, that it invites skepticism more than it persuades.

Nicholas Lemann

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Education January/February 2020 Review Essay

Unmerited

Markovits’s picture of American meritocracy is so lurid, so inexorably dark, that it invites skepticism more than it persuades.

Reviewed by Nicholas Lemann

Education Mar 22, 2019 Snapshot

Is There a Future for American Universities in the Middle East?

Pompeo's fiery speech at the American University in Cairo in February triggered a faculty uprising against the university administration and trustees. Painful as it...

Lisa Anderson

At the American University in Cairo, Egypt, January 2019

Populism March/April 2019 Essay

Educate to Liberate

By opening access to higher education, colleges have a chance to save liberal values and fight populism.

Carla Norrlof

The old college try: at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, November 2015

Education November/December 2018 Essay

Generation Stress

Universities need to figure out how to produce happier, more resilient students.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Students attend commencement at Ohio State University, May 2013.

From the Archives Apr 12, 2017 Snapshot

Hungary Is Turning Into Russia

Comparing Orban to Putin might once have been hyperbole. But when Fidesz seems determined to expel a high-quality educational institution from the country on the...

Dalibor Rohac

Hungarians protest against the government's anti-CEU bill, Budapest, April 2017.

Education Oct 31, 2016 Snapshot

Japan Gets Schooled

Japan's anachronistic universities are struggling to adapt to a globally competitive marketplace for students, faculty, funding, and jobs.

Devin Stewart

A job seeker looks at his smartphone during a job fair held for fresh graduates in Tokyo, March 8, 2015.

Education Aug 30, 2016 Response

NYU’s Global Perspective

As someone who studied in three countries and has spent most of my academic career in a fourth, I have a keen personal sense of how important it is for higher...

Andrew Hamilton

Education September/October 2016 Response

Worth the Trip?

Debating the Value of Study Abroad

Eric R. Terzuolo, Sanford J. Ungar

Hikers take a selfie in Egypt's White Canyon, November 2015

Education May 23, 2016 Snapshot

An App to Save Syria's Lost Generation?

In the scramble to address the deepening refugee crisis, it seems that policymakers, big tech companies, and advocates are turning to the smartphone to find a solution.

Mark Latonero

Terrorism & Counterterrorism Mar 10, 2016 Snapshot

Uncivil Engineers

Among those who have been to university, engineers are dramatically overrepresented almost everywhere across the world and in every jihadist group. Here's why.

Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog

A file photo of a courtroom sketch by artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U.S. military, shows alleged 9/11 co-conspirators Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (C) and co-defendant Walid bin Attash (L) attending a pre-trial session at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base,

Education Feb 1, 2016 Snapshot

A Study in Conflict

Young people were at the heart of the Syrian Arab Spring, and they have borne the brunt of the instability that has followed. Here are the stories of some of those who...

Xanthe Ackerman, Elie Gardner, Christina Asquith, and Molly Bernstein

Syrian refugee students in second grade wait for the start of their first lesson of the year at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Primary School in Ankara, Turkey, September 28, 2015.

Education March/April 2016 Essay

The Study-Abroad Solution

The failure of the broader U.S. public to encounter foreigners, except through a gun sight, is not just unfortunate but also dangerous. The United States should...

Sanford J. Ungar

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry holds a passport while greeting employees of the State Department in Washington, D.C., February 2013.

Education Dec 23, 2015 Snapshot

Erdogan's Assault on Education

In Turkey, where there has been a rise in Islamic religiosity, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, founder of the pro-Islamist Development and Justice Party (AKP), is...

Xanthe Ackerman and Ekin Calisir

Education Sep 17, 2015 Snapshot

War Child

Stanley Hoffmann, who died last week at the age of 86, was both a magisterial scholar of the century of total war and a fugitive from it.

Gary J. Bass

Harvard's seal sits atop a gate to the athletic fields at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts September 21, 2009.

Economics Aug 20, 2015 Snapshot

Teach the World

Education is the single most important driver of economic growth, yet the new UN Sustainable Development Goals provide no measurable guidance to improving educational...

Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

Best of 2015 July/August 2015 Essay

The Decline of International Studies

The United States used to have excellent international studies programs, which helped support the country’s diplomatic power and stabilizing global role. But as...

Charles King

Politics & Society March/April 2015 Review Essay

Class and the Classroom

William Deresiewicz argues that elite American universities have abandoned the vital goal of enlightenment to focus instead on facilitating students’ careers,...

Reviewed by George Scialabba

Politics & Society Dec 2, 2014 Snapshot

Forgotten Children

Today, orphanages are common in many parts of the world. But a look at young people who spent their childhoods in institutions in Romania reveals just how...

Charles A. Nelson, Nathan A. Fox, and Charles H. Zeanah

A child stands next to a bullet shattered window during the 1989 anti-communist revolution in Timisoara, December 23, 1989.

Education Nov 13, 2014 Snapshot

North Korea's Real Hunger

In that relentless vacuum, nothing moved. No news came in or out. No phone calls, no emails, no letters, no ideas not prescribed by the regime. Thirty missionaries...

Suki Kim

North Korean students look out from behind cardboard used to form a background picture ahead of a mass gymnastic performance.

Politics & Society November/December 2014 Essay

Culture War

Over the last few decades, governments have increasingly sought to reclaim indigenous artifacts from museums abroad. Yet inappropriate calls for repatriation should be...

James Cuno

An ancient Egyptian statue in Madrid, April 15, 2008.

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