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Mark Stein’s Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs and Bowling From the Pilgrims to the Present tracks how the vice of one century, such as bowling or playing cards, can become the wholesome family recreation of another, writes Scott McLemee.

As people in leadership positions start to leave higher education, it will be increasingly important to ensure that the best and brightest of the younger generations stick around, argues James Wicks.

Thomas Doherty wonders if today’s atmosphere on college campuses encourages, or even tolerates, the kind of unsparing reprimand from a professor that might be needed for a student’s growth.

Alex Posecznick offers some guidelines.

Jim Jump considers roles that counselors shouldn’t play, and lines they shouldn’t cross.

Michael S. Roth examines campus intellectual diversity in the age of polarization.

Trying to turn the spectacularly popular show into a means of encouraging future medieval scholars is misguided, writes Richard Utz.

Some “free speech” proponents only support perspectives that have advantaged them -- at the expense of social progress, argues Christina Berchini.