Joanne JacobsMar 282 minVirtue signaling turns nasty at Stanford, silly at Vanderbilt"Aggression and abuse" are now "an accepted part of campus activism," writes Theo Baker, a Stanford sophomore, in The Atlantic. When...
Joanne JacobsFeb 202 minWhere to find curious, confident, inquisitive studentsHer expectations were low she visited Utah Valley University, a large, open-enrollment state university, admits Martha C. Nussbaum, a...
Joanne JacobsFeb 202 minSympathy for the devil: What's the bad guy's point of view?Novelist Rachel Kadish tells her creative-writing students to write a first-person monologue by a character with "abhorrent" views that...
Joanne JacobsFeb 42 minCollege is now a 'what to think' place, not 'how to think' for yourself"Professors here teach how to think, not "what to think," college tour guides claim. Don't believe them, writes Caitlin Flanagan in The...