This week’s “Free for All” letters. Suzanna Danuta Walters’s thoughtful May 1 Wednesday Opinion essay, “It’s time for the men to lean out,” presented a timely and provocative challenge to the status ...

L ast week James Sweet, president of the American Historical Association, sparked an academic firestorm by devoting his monthly column for the association newsletter to a critique of presentism. For ...

"The U.S. is actually a giant, undeveloped farming village," begins an anonymous web post that's actually a subtle critique of China itself. Sarcasm in China: Check. On the eve of U.S. Secretary of ...

Clay Shirky is a big thinker, and I read him because he’s consistently worth reading. But he’s not always right – and his thinking (and the flaws in it) is typical of the unquestioning enthusiasm of ...

As a Republican professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University, I think I have a unique understanding of the challenges faced by the right in higher education. Beyond my 20 years of ...