Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Sutherland Institute on August 8, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. You’re about to begin one of the most transformative experiences of your life: your collegiate journey. You’ve earned your seat through talent, persistence, discipline, and resilience. […]
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When checking my Yahoo emails in the morning, I always inevitably pass by the news section on the front page. I almost never actually read the articles, though—until recently. I was struck by the title and could not help but click it. My approach was certainly one of skepticism—clickbait is all too common on the […]
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Our recent campus upheavals, focusing at times on offensive speech, have provoked a worry: are colleges infantilizing their students? Last March, the journalist and cultural critic Judith Shulevitz raised this concern in a tour de force of an op-ed, in which she argued that protecting students from offensive speech, except in the most extreme cases, […]
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