Education

A trailblazing architect and artist, Marion Mahony was among the first employees hired in Wright’s Chicago office and helped shape the Prairie style

Being bilingual benefits children as they learn to speak — and adults as they age.

Today is April 1, April Fools’ Day, the annual holiday that celebrates pranking, hoaxes, and all manner of horseplay and tomfoolery. But why? Where did this faux holiday come from? Why do we do this to each other, and when will we finally just stop?

Common knowledge says the maximum size of PDF is as big as 40% of Germany — but that’s a gross underestimate.

American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that. The United States is home to the best collection of research universities in the world.

We talk to Richard Hanania, an influential thinker on the online right, about how he got DEI dismantled and why he’s fallen out of love with MAGA.

It was 1988. My first year as a high school English teacher in a girls’ school had just ended. I was heading to Alabama for my wedding when the head of the school called me to his office to announce a temporary reassignment for the following fall. “Ms.

Two days after Adolf Hitler became Chan­cel­lor of Ger­many, the Luther­an pas­tor Diet­rich Bon­ho­ef­fer took to the air­waves. Before his radio broad­cast was cut off, he warned his coun­try­men that their führer could well be a ver­führer, or mis­leader.

At international academic conferences recently, one sees an interesting trend. Some American participants are travelling with “burner” phones or have minimalist laptops running browsers and not much else.