Les Perelman, expert in writing assessment and champion of writing education, dies at 77

Mary Oliver’s Advice on Writing

Yale Admits Self-Censorship and Political Bias Are Eroding Trust in Higher Education

Contemporary writing about womanhood is full of apologizing, justifying, or moralizing. Such approaches shed little light

Not Judge Judy, Juror Judi—But "Stupid Mistake" Isn't "Actual Malice" for Libel Purposes

Thursday Poem

Israel Moderates Are Losing the Democratic Party

In Poisoned Ivies, Stefanik Sees Censorship as a Cure for 'Anti-Americanism'

Join the dots

Rehabilitating the Active Imagination: Samantha Harvey on How to Be a Reader in the Age of Fractured Attention

Hoover Daily Report | April 16, 2026

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Writing and Re-writing the Legacy of Malcolm X

T.S. Eliot on the pressure to be an intelligent correspondent: “If I ever had any small gift for letter writing, it has been ruined years ago”

The World Bank Used To Champion Markets. Now It's Surrendering to State-Led Industrialization.

Jan Morris correctly predicted that whatever her merits as writer, her obituary would inevitably read "Sex Change Author Dies"

Raritan was a small magazine full of muscular writing. Why did it fail to cultivate a younger audience?

Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight

Reflections on Getting a College Education in Prison

2026 Church, State & Society Writing Competition for Law Students and Law Clerks

When a colleague dies: exploring academia's ‘death-denying’ culture

America’s Largest Teachers’ Union Prizes Activism Over Education