Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Hacking Democracy
What Can We Know and When Can We Know It?

Is there any hope of learning the truth about Russia, the elections, and Trump from Congress?

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Net Assessment
Time to Re-Engage

Whipsawed by years of foreign policy activism and then by general retreat, the United States is at risk of losing an opportunity to cement hard-won gains in Central Asia/Afghanistan.

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Milo Murray & Middlebury
How Not to Defend Free Speech

And why some limits on speech are not only good but even necessary for a free society.

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Rethinking Higher-Ed
Multiculturalism and Its Discontents

The movement for curriculum diversity in higher education is both too extreme and arrayed against the wrong target. There is a better way.

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European Bellwethers
Immigration Fatigue Defines Dutch Elections

No matter the outcome, tomorrow’s parliamentary elections in the Netherlands will widen the divisions between European elites and publics.

Samuel J. Abrams
Higher Education Watch
Mind the Professors

How the lack of ideological diversity on college campuses slows progress and threatens the ideals of liberal education.

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higher education
The Therapeutic University

How medicalized language and the therapeutic culture came to dominate Anglo-American institutions of higher education.

What Comes Next
America’s Placebo President?

For Trump supporters, the best-case scenario for the next four years may be the illusion of control.

Surrealist-in-Chief
The Banality of (Trump’s) Lying

The dangers of becoming desensitized to the President’s serial untruths.

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Six Lessons
Protecting America’s Voice Abroad

A memo to the new CEO of U.S. international media.

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