“Israel’s new international college programs offer American students an escape from campus activism while training them as state cheerleaders.”
Academia
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the ‘New York Times’ About Zohran Mamdani
“The former chair of the Africana Studies department at Bowdoin College would prefer not to.”
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Course of Treatment
“After Stanford physician Bryant Lin was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, he invited students to follow along.”
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Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future?
“Learning that one’s job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company.”
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The Feud Tearing the Paleontology World Apart
“Two paleontologists have turned on each other, each claiming to have found new evidence about the worst day on Earth.”
Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, our editors recommend stories by Carla Ciccone, Lex Pryor, Bhavya Dore, Michelle Cyca, and Casey Lyons.
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The Professor
“Maybe the most powerful person is the one who dares to refuse the gift.”
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The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t
“Academia is an industry, like journalism, that defines itself in large part by its ethical standards; we’re supposed to educate people and produce knowledge. So what does it mean that we’re also a haven for fakes?”
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A Black Physicist Is Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past
“I am forced to live in a parallel world to the one I wanted to live in, where I could have been a physicist without also constantly being asked to speak on or attempt to compensate for the persistent racism of institutions.”