In a rare show of admiration for a prospective student, a high school student who applied to the University of Chicago was welcomed with a handwritten note in response to her college essay. The ...

Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder’s essay “The Truth, and Nothing but the Truth?” is a response to my criticisms of their earlier piece “The Purpose of the University Isn’t Truth. It’s Inquiry”. In ...

“You crossed a line when you attacked a child and attacked teachers,” the boy’s mother told Rep. Virginia Foxx.

Julie M. Elman responds to the winners of our Spring 2016 Student Writing Competition. Dear Clair, Deedee, Dion, Jazmyn, Jonah, and Nicole, Since 2012, I’ve been illustrating other people’s fears.