Steven Mintz

Detractors point to bloated bureaucracies, complacency, declining quality, a lack of focus, broken business models and an inability to adapt. Do they have a leg to stand on?

How ideas about randomness, chance, uncertainty and probability are radically reshaping the humanities and the social and physical sciences.

Neologisms, slang, jargon, acronyms and loanwords are reshaping the language right before our eyes.

It’s a mistake to confine the American musical theater to drama departments.

The true secret of student success.

The political economy of power grids, mass transit and affordable housing, and the implications for higher education.

Are the alarmist headlines right? Yes and no.

Bridging the divide between humanistic and neurobiological and neuropsychological understandings of consciousness.