Scott McLemee explores Barbara Ehrenreich’s Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer. More...

Higher education institutions should establish new rules and regulations regarding hiring process for disabled faculty members, argues Amir Haji-Akbari. More...

Michael Roth considers Steven Pinker's paean to progress. More...

Few people are paying attention to the contributions of small liberal arts colleges that are dedicated to educating disadvantaged students. But without them, our country will suffer, argues Alice Brown. More...

By failing to account for where graduates live, its earnings information is flawed, argues Doug Williams. More...

Scott McLemee reviews Westworld and Philosophy, a collection of essays to be published shortly before the second season of the HBO series begins. More...

The claim that cutting back on certain liberal arts majors means that an institution cannot be university makes assumptions that are worth examining, writes Greg Summers. More...

It's not enough to say that they pick up critical thinking skills, write Sam Wineburg, Joel Breakstone and Mark Smith. It's time to offer evidence. More...

Grant Shreve notes that the genre dates back to the 1970s, and considers the differences between the writing of that era and today. More...

In an era of record student debt and continuing retention challenges, it's worth asking whether we might find ways to cut general-education requirements by half, argues Zachary Michael Jack. More...