The Review
The Chronicle’s opinion, analysis, and culture section, with op-eds, book reviews, interviews, letters, scholar profiles, and essays about the ideas and controversies shaping higher education.
The Review | Conversation
The Review | Essay
Punishment-obsessed administrators have betrayed the university’s ideals.
The Review | Opinion
A response to “Why Pedagogy ‘Experts’ Are Wrong.”
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Administrators chose hope over honesty; the rest of us are suffering because of it.
The Review | Opinion
The academy’s gerontocracy problem is worse than anyone admits.
The Review | Opinion
Jordan Acker’s failure was about real politics, not identity politics.
The Review | Opinion
In offloading pedagogical expertise to nonscholars, colleges degrade the classroom.
The Review | Essay
What happens when scholarship is conceived as a political contest?
The Review | Essay
It’s easier to dismiss our critics with condescension than to reform.
The Review | Opinion
Princeton is adjusting its endowment expectations. Others should follow.
The Review | Opinion
The new tools should sharpen your thinking rather than outsource it.
The Review | Opinion
The new civics movement should heed that warning.
The Review | Essay
We need to focus less on what and how, and more on why.





















