Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

Education is not inherently liberatory: it has always been an arena for broader struggles over who has access to knowledge and to what ends learning is put.

Why the left’s turn from higher education has coincided with a newfound conservative appreciation for it.

Two new books take aim at the moral failures of meritocracy. But we can advocate for a more just society without giving up on merit.

How faculty retirement policies shape racial and gender diversity on campus.

Astra Taylor talks with Rutgers faculty union president Todd Wolfson about organizing academic communities in the age of COVID-19.