Why are there many Americans in media and academia who lament ...

The lame lament of the summertime academic - Foreign Policy

My latest commentary for Marketplace discusses what, exactly, academics do during the summer, since, after all, we're not teaching.

Deconstructing Media Stereotypes of The American South

Certainly, stereotypes surrounding race, gender, and sexual preference are far more prevalent and considerably more harmful and overtly hateful than are.

Hedges Laments The 'Death Of The Liberal Class' - NPR

From organizing workers to preventing war, journalist Chris Hedges argues that liberals have surrendered the good fights to corporations and ...

Moving Beyond the Lament: The Villains — and Us

My villain, in my editor days, was Gannett. They bought a national-class newspaper and applied business practices that inevitably (and ...

1. Americans are largely skeptical of the news media, but say there ...

In general, Americans tend to express more negative than positive views about the news media and feel that that it is beneficial for society ...

Looking for the Soul of Environmental Lament - Oxford Academic

Abstract. In texts, films, paintings and speeches, New Deal policymakers and allied intellectuals deployed biblical language and images to ...

Are Too Many People Going to College? - AEI

To ask whether too many people are going to college requires us to think about the importance and nature of a liberal education.

It's not dark yet, but it's getting there: An immigrant's lament - The Week

My first week in Ohio, I went grocery shopping and bought a large watermelon, along with four bags of groceries, most of them frozen dinners ...

Opinion | Men are lost. Here's a map out of the wilderness.

No one's offering men a model except the right. It's time for a new plan.

Opinion | The Real Reason Harris and the Democrats Lost to Trump

The 2016 election was a heartbreak for America's sentimental liberals. This one arrives with more of a deadening thump, with less hope of ...

A lefty's lament — Harvard Gazette

A southpaw science writer comes to terms with research on handedness by the Kennedy School's Joshua Goodman.

What's Really Holding Women Back? - Harvard Business Review

As scholars of gender inequality in the workplace, we are routinely asked by companies to investigate why they are having trouble retaining women and ...

The Difficulty of Being a Perfect Asian American | The New Yorker

Hua Hsu writes about college admissions and how Asian Americans internalize the myth of the model minority, drawing on the documentary “Try ...

A Brief History of Anti-Intellectualism in American Media - AAUP

Mundy's article—while not the standard higher education media fare—is not unique. For decades, national newspapers and magazines, elite ones such as the New ...

Hillbilly Lament | Andrew Wheeler

I recently read JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy. I grew up in very rural Pennsylvania in the Appalachian mountains, and I am the same age as Vance.

Ruralist Lament: Living in a time of monsters

I came of age in a simpler time. The mill town of my youth produced textiles, shoes, and lumber. There were dozens of dairy farms, ...

What America Could Look Like Without Fox News | TIME

Tucker Carlson is gone, but what if the network vanished too? A data-based thought experiment.

Five Reasons Why Trump Won Again - Sapiens.org

An anthropologist of the “Trumpiverse” explains MAGA supporters' thinking in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America's Reading Crisis

Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she's cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she reclaim her good ...

Ike's Lament: In Search of a Revolution in Military Education

It was the day after Suzy died. Congressman Ike Skelton's dearly loved soulmate was gone, and Ike's call to me that night was heart-rending.