To Desire Like a Little Child

by Colin Redemer

Trevor Merrill, in his delightful novel, asks what it would take for underground men to mature into surface dwellers. Continue Reading »

3 Jun 2024

Hope for the Organization Kid

by Joshua P. Hochschild

Twenty-three years ago, David Brooks published in The Atlantic a long essay based on interviews with Princeton undergraduates. He found the students busy: overscheduled, achievement-oriented models of meritocratic success. They were “extraordinarily bright, morally earnest, and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2024

Israel, Armenia, and the Ivy League

by Simone Rizkallah

It is a special kind of irony to observe faculty and students use their freedom for the sake of a movement that would crush it in one day. Continue Reading »

22 May 2024

The Miracle of a Baseball

by Finnegan Schick

The extended moderation of my life was disrupted on a recent weeknight at Fenway Park. Continue Reading »

17 May 2024

The Death of Institutional Identity

by Solveig Lucia Gold

Our universities are failing to unite political enemies and forge common identities. Continue Reading »

13 May 2024

Why the Left Won’t Condemn the October 7 Rapes

by Kari Jenson Gold

When sex is stripped of its significance, then rape stops being a uniquely dreadful crime.  Continue Reading »

26 Mar 2024

Media Malfeasance

by Mark Bauerlein

Christine Rosen joins the podcast to discuss her articles “All the President's Press Men” and “Enola Gay, or, How the Media Imploded When It Came to Harvard's President.” Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2024

What We Can Learn From Edward Said After October 7

by Yosie Levine

Said was a vocal advocate for the causes in which he believed, but he didn’t demonize students or cheer on murder.  Continue Reading »

3 Jan 2024

Has Hitler Won on the Left?

by Carl R. Trueman

Perhaps Hitler has won, though on the left—the opposite end of the political spectrum to that we might have expected. Continue Reading »

14 Dec 2023