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February 14, 2023
Walter Shapiro
Biden’s Ivy League Problem
For all the posturing as Amtrak Joe, the president has fallen into the same elite trap that has captured our political system.
July 20, 2021
Robert Litan
Why Does Congress Let the Ivy League Operate as a Monopoly?
A little-known law allows the most prestigious schools in America to cap the aid they offer to the most sought-after applicants, a provision that harms students of color.
January 25, 2021
William Hogeland
Against the Consensus Approach to History
How not to learn about the American past
August 21, 2020
J.C. Pan
The Conservative Misdirection of the Affirmative Action Debate
The battle over Ivy League admissions focuses on a handful of elite schools and ignores deeper educational inequalities exacerbated by Covid-19.
February 5, 2016
Alex Shephard
A naked Ted Cruz was once allegedly locked out of his Princeton dormitory.
November 24, 2014
Anthony Franze
The Supreme Court Justices All Went to the Same Ivy League Schools. So What?
November 14, 2014
Dahlia Lithwick
Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Columbia
The thing that scares me most about the Supreme Court
November 6, 2014
David Fontana
How Republicans Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ivy League
Several GOP candidates rode their Harvard resumes to victory
September 4, 2014
Steven Pinker
The Trouble With Harvard
The Ivy League is broken and only standardized tests can fix it
September 4, 2014
Adrian Wooldridge
A True Test: In Defense of the SAT
Critics say the SAT puts minorities at a disadvantage in college admissions, but without it those groups would do even worse.
August 22, 2014
Judith Shulevitz
The Future of College Is Not As Bleak As You Think
August 17, 2014
William Deresiewicz
Your Criticism of My Ivy League Takedown Further Proves My Point
July 29, 2014
David A. Bell
Making Money Shouldn't Be the Purpose of a College Education
Money magazine's college rankings are the most pernicious yet
July 29, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
An Attack on the Ivy League Is an Attack on Meritocracy Itself
July 28, 2014
Andrew Giambrone
I'm a Laborer's Son. I Went to Yale. I Am Not "Trapped in a Bubble of Privilege."
July 25, 2014
J.D. Chapman
Send Your Kid to the Ivy League!
The New Republic's article against elite education is destructive to my students
July 22, 2014
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William Deresiewicz
Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League
The nation's top colleges are turning our kids into zombies.
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May 14, 2014
Simon Waxman
Don't Blame the "Check Your Privilege" Essay-Writer. Blame His Editors.
October 5, 2012
Laura Bennett
Generation Whine
October 1, 2012
Marc Tracy
A Blog Hopes Its New Online Course Will Be More Than Marginal

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