If players were paid, market forces would work against competitive imbalance
Education
The Bourne Hypocrisy: Matt Damon’s Peculiar School Choice
The movie star and public school advocate is sending his four daughters to private school
Your First-Grader Is Going to Be a High School Dropout
And other startling predictions from the brave new world of academic evaluations
What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Ivy League Hookup Culture
The sex lives of most college students aren’t all that different from those of their parents or grandparents
We Love to Hate the ‘Bad’ Teacher
The new novel Tampa fuels our national anxiety about public education
Do Kids Really Have ‘Summer Learning Loss’?
Reading just four or five books can ward off setbacks in language skills
Viewpoint: The Goal of Affirmative Action Should Not Be ‘Diversity’ but Righting Wrongs
Our misguided Supreme Court has invited a barrage of new attacks on affirmative action based on the wrong principle
No Silver Linings for Conservatives on SCOTUS Affirmative Action Decision
The ruling is a setback for the cause of returning the nation to the color-blind principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
Critics of the Liberal Arts Are Wrong
Yes, science and tech are important, but a new report shows that employers prize a more broadly-based education
Affirmative Action Has Helped White Women More Than Anyone
Their successes make the case not for abandoning affirmative action but for continuing it
Bill Cosby’s ‘Tough Love’ Is Counterproductive
Bill Cosby is not alone in thinking black Americans need to do better, but his advice is not just tone-deaf, it’s useless as well
8 New Ways of Looking at Intelligence
Our brains can be strengthened (and weakened) in many more ways than we ever thought.
The Lessons of the Megalomaniac University President
Universities are not businesses, and university presidents are not CEOs