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Simple Fixes for Income-Driven Repayment

Income-driven repayment plans are a crucial safety net for student loan borrowers, but they include well-known design flaws. Jessica Thompson and Michele Streeter write about bipartisan solutions to improve the plans.

What Took the Place of Western Civ?

What appeared during the 1980s to be an invigorating and just revision of a narrow curriculum has turned out to be no curriculum at all, writes Mark Bauerlein.

Why Indiana Went Test Optional

Ultimately, it's for the students, writes David B. Johnson.

Ethical College Admissions: Legacy Preferences

Is it time to end them or extend them? Jim Jump considers the issues.

An Invitation to Our Watchers

The recent debate that a Martin Luther King Jr. Day writing contest has engendered does not render efforts at diversity, equity or inclusion irrelevant or bankrupt, Tobin Miller Shearer, the chair of the contest committee, writes.

Of Love

In his review of Eric Schwitzgebel's A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures, Scott McLemee also focuses on love.

The Era of Politicized Scholarship

The partisan attacks on me for deviating from the politicized academic consensus demonstrates how law school faculties around the country are heavily politically biased, Alan M. Dershowitz argues.

Ignore the Hype. College Is Worth It

Improvements are certainly long overdue in the way higher education institutions operate, writes Anthony P. Carnevale, but the value of a college degree in the workplace is without question.