Latest articles by Samuel Goldman
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Academic freedom, attacked left and rightopinion The university has a unique mission. Does anyone remember what it is?
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Why urban decline could be good — even for citiesopinion How decentralization of wealth and status could make America more stable and resilient
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Rowdy protests aren't violence — yetopinion If every disagreement is a potential threat, politics becomes impossible
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The recurring problem with the MacArthur 'genius' grantsopinion Must every genius be liberal?
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What Democrats really think about parentsTalking Point
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Good riddance, Angela Merkelopinion Merkel promised to uphold liberalism, democracy, and European cooperation. She left them weaker in almost everything she touched.
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Let science fiction be weird againopinion The genre has become technically accomplished, deeply serious, and utterly boring
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The American elite will be femaleopinion How women conquered college — and the future
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Americans just want their schools left aloneTalking Point
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Biden chooses the wrong Bible verseTalking Point
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Harvard's new chaplain is an atheist. Is that a contradiction?opinion What the rise of humanism reveals about a university founded by Puritans
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Afghanistan collapsed. U.S. alliances won't.opinion Why the fall of Kabul is unlikely to damage America's relations with the rest of the world
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The problem with academic funding, in 1 ironic scandalTalking Point
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The Orwell Foundation gives in to cancel cultureTalking Point
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How American Jews lost by winningopinion On the triumph and the tragedy of the American Jewish story
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Trump's little win in OhioTalking Point
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American indifference to Cuba is the end of an eraopinion So closes an expansive vision of American foreign policy that extends back to 1898
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Fertility is the real culture waropinion What the pandemic baby bust reveals about our fears
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PayPal recklessly forays into regulating speechTalking Point
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The polls don't work — and that's a good thingTalking Point
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Mainline Protestantism is America's phantom limbopinion Mainline Protestantism is dying. Will American Christianity survive?
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Stop calling the U.S. an oligarchyfeature Despite its dwindling reputation, American democracy is far healthier than its peers in Europe
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