Opinion Pieces
“Trump is riding an imaginary crime wave,” The Hill, May 12, 2024
“How using ‘high dominance’ rhetoric can help Biden beat Trump,” The Hill, May 5, 2024 (and 7 other media outlets)
“This obscure procedure can restore majority rule in the House of Representatives,” The Hill, April 28, 2024 (and 1 other media outlet)
“What Trump’s abortion flip-flops reveal,” The Hill, April 21, 2024 (and 3 other media outlets)
“A glimmer of hope for Gaza,” The Hill, April 14, 2024 (and 3 other media outlets)
“The judges who threw Trump a lifeline are the kind of people he usually loves to hate,” The Hill, April 7, 2024 (and 2 other media outlets)
“Lessons from the National Association of Realtors settlement for the 2024 election,” The Hill, March 31, 2024 (and 2 other media outlets)
“Trump’s TikTok Tics,” The Hill, March 24, 2024
“What if Trump does what he’s saying he’ll do?” The Hill, March 17, 2024
“America should learn from France’s protection of abortion rights,” The Hill, March 5, 2024 (and 2 other media outlets)
“Deliver us from America’s huckster-in-chief,” The Hill, March 3, 2024 (and 3 other media outlets)
“Even in recess, House GOP priorities are all screwed up,” The Hill, February 25, 2024
“The stakes in Ukraine are too high for the House GOP’s partisan nonsense,” The Hill, February 14, 2024
“Let’s listen to what Trump is saying about how he’d govern,” The Hill, February 11, 2024 (and 7 other media outlets)
“RFK Jr. has a lot of explaining to do,” The Hill, February 4, 2024 (and 2 other media outlets)
“Amend the Constitution to guarantee Americans the right to vote,” The Hill, January 28, 2024 (and 4 other media outlets)
“The Antitax Movement Gets Failing Grades,” The Messenger, January 23, 2024
“The instructive history of book bans,” (co-authored with David Wippman), The Hill, January 21, 2024 (reposted on MSN and Real Clear Politics)
“Is it too late to end America’s ‘democratic recession’?” The Hill, January 14, 2024
“House Republicans prefer political theater to passing laws,” The Hill, January 7, 2024 (including 3 other media outlets)
“Six Americans who left lasting legacies in 2023,” The Hill, December 31, 2023 (and 3 other media outlets)
“The elephant in the Giuliani defamation courtroom,” The Hill, December 24, 2023 (and 5 other media outlets)
"The campus war of words over antisemitism and the BDS movement" (co-authored with David Wippman), The Hill, December 17, 2023 (and 4 other media outlets)
“No, expelling George Santos didn’t set a bad precedent,” The Hill, December 10, 2023 (and 4 other media outlets)
“Higher Ed, Indoctrination and Miseducation,” Letter to the Editor (co-authored with David Wippman), Wall Street Journal, December 7, 2023
“Tommy Tuberville and the Future of the Single Senator Veto,” The Hill, December 3, 2023 (and 5 other media outlets)
“Why American politics has become vulgar and violent,” The Hill, November 26, 2023 (and 8 other media outlets)
“What the history of campus hate speech codes teaches us about fighting antisemitism,” (co-authored with David Wippman), The Hill, November 19, 2023 (and 2 other media outlets) (syndicated to MSN)
“Did last week’s elections mark the end of the anti-woke ‘parents’ rights’ movement?” (co-authored with David Wippman), The Hill, November 14, 2023
“Higher education’s perfect storm is becoming a tsunami,” (co-authored with David Wippman), The Hill, November 12, 2023 (and 5 other media outlets)
"How democracy dies right here in America," The Hill, November 5, 2023 (and 3 other media outlets)
“They looked over Jim Jordan, and what did they see?,” The Hill, October 24, 2023 (and 1 other media outlet)
“The tyranny of the GOP isolationist minority,” The Hill, October 22, 2023
"Will Trump's loose lips sink his ship?" The Hill, October 15, 2023 (and 8 other media outlets)
"Why Republicans in Congress aren't condemning corrupt politicians," The Hill, October 8, 2023 (and 3 other media outlets)
"The doubtful convictions of Donald J. Trump," The Hill, October 1, 2023 (and 6 other media outlets)
"Is Hunter Biden actually getting a 'sweetheart deal'?" The Hill, September 24, 2023 (and 5 other media outlets)
"How colleges can address online harassment," (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, September 17, 2023
"In praise of Republican guardians of liberty," The Hill, September 10, 2023 (and 7 other media outlets)
"This Labor Day, the deck is still stacked against unions," The Hill, September 3, 2023 (and 6 other media outlets)
"Climate deniers are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts," The Hill, August 27, 2023 (and 6 other media outlets)
“Trump’s pre-trial ‘testimony’,” The Hill, August 20, 2023 (and 7 other media outlets)
"45 pages every American should read,” The Hill, August 13, 2023 (and 6 other media outlets)
“Biden is getting a bad rap,” The Hill, August 6, 2023
“Florida’s new Black history standards are misleading and offensive,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, July 30, 2023 (and 5 other media outlets)
“Worries about a gender gap on campuses oversimplify the situation,” (coauthored with David Wippman), Washington Post, July 26, 2023
“ConspiracyMongers in Congress: Republicans go off the deep end,” The Hill, July 23, 2023 (and 6 other media outlets)
“Oklahoma is turning a blind eye on its own history” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, July 16, 2023 (syndicated to MSN)
“Does grading make the grade?” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 16, 2023
“Six reasons why Moms for Liberty is an extremist organization,” The Hill, July 9, 2023 (and 6 U.S. and 11 international media outlets, including the Berliner Morganpost)
“Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sport,” (coauthored with David Wippman), Letters to the Editor, New York Times, July 5, 2023
“Republicans are weaponization wannabes,” The Hill, July 2, 2023 (syndicated to MSN, and 5 other media outlets)
“How low will Speaker McCarthy go?” The Hill, June 25, 2023
“Trump is right that America is in mortal danger. He’s dead wrong about the cause.” The Hill, June 12, 2023 (and 6 other media outlets)
“Trump and DeSantis race to the bottom,” The Hill, June 11, 2023 (syndicated to MSN, and 7 other media outlets).
“Debating Race and Rights in College, Admissions,” (coauthored with David Wippman), Letters to the Editor, Wall Street Journal, June 5, 2023
“Don’t let one senator hold all military promotions hostage,” The Hill, June 4, 2023 (and 8 other media outlets)
“We Have A Civics Education Crisis – And Deep Divisions On How To Solve It,” (coauthored with David Wippman), Washington Post, May 31, 2023 (reposted in History News Network)
“Florida’s antiLGBTQ laws are unwarranted and unAmerican,” The Hill, May 28, 2023N
“Bail reform, crime waves and the fake news about them,” The Hill, May 21, 2023
“The empty chair at the Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy trials,” The Hill, May 14, 2023 (syndicated to MSN)
“Stop the steal—the Republican steal,” The Hill, May 7, 2023
“The right’s demonization of campus diversity, equity and inclusion programs must end,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, April 30, 2023 (syndicated to MSN)
“Abortion is now political Kryptonite for Republicans,” The Hill, April 23, 2023 (syndicated to MSN)
“The threat to Democracy behind the farce in Tennessee,” The Hill, April 11, 2023 (syndicated to MSN)
“The myth of ‘woke’ indoctrination of students,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, April 9, 2023 (reposted on History News Network and syndicated to MSN)
“Most consequential election of 2023 will be held Tuesday,” The Hill, April 2, 2023
“Republicans want history to hold Donald Trump accountable – when it won’t matter,” The Hill, March 26, 2023 (syndicated to MSN)
“The Lifelong Benefits of English Class,” (coauthored with David Wippman), Letters to the Editor, New York Times, March 25, 2023
“Getting to ‘Yes’ on civics education,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, March 19, 2023
“2024 Republican primaries may be a rerun of 2016,” The Hill, March 12, 2023
“Language Control in Education is Indeed A Problem,” (coauthored with David Wippman), Letters to the Editor, Washington Post, March 12, 2023
“What if Marjorie Taylor Greene’s secessionist fantasy came true?,” The Hill, March 5, 2023 (syndicated to MSN)
“Jimmy Carter continues to teach us what it means to live a good life,” The Hill, February 22, 2023
“Police reforms can save lives, save money, and strengthen law enforcement,” The Hill, February 19, 2023
“Solving the Dual Crises of Democracy and Capitalism,” The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 19, 2023
“An Existential Threat to Academic Freedom,” Letter to the Editor (coauthored with David Wippman), The Wall Street Journal, February 14, 2023
“MAGA Republicans have shown us their cards,” The Hill, February 12, 2023
“Florida is trying to roll back a century of gains for academic freedom,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Washington Post, February 6, 2023 (and reposted in History News Network)
“An ambitious, bipartisan prolife legislative agenda,” The Hill, February 5, 2023
“What Americans don’t know about other countries does hurt us,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, January 29, 2023
“What Belongs In Marketplaces of Ideas?” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Washington Post, January 27, 2023
“‘Mirror, Mirror’— Who’s the fairest ‘weaponizer’ of them all?” The Hill, January 22, 2023
“Republicans: attacking the IRS is a nolose proposition, right?” The Hill, January 10, 2023
“George Santos: The latest — and lamest — product of the normalization of lying,” The Hill, January 8, 2023
“For election deniers, 2022 ended not with a bang but with a whimper,” The Hill, January 1, 2023
“Preparing to ‘play chicken’ with default: Understanding Republicans’ ‘debt limit terror’,” The Hill, December 25, 2022
“Donald Trump brings new meaning to ‘guilt by association’,” The Hill, December 18, 2022
“Is College Too Hard?” (coauthored with David Wippman), Inside Higher Ed, December 14, 2022
“Trump certainly has had ‘a great fall’,” The Hill, December 7, 2022
“What’s the matter with Arizona?” The Hill, December 4, 2022
“In Donald Trump’s America, facts are fungible,” The Hill, November 27, 2022
“A Thanksgiving week shoutout to the other Bill Gates,” The Hill, November 20, 2022
“Is Donald Trump the gift that keeps on giving – to Democrats?” The Hill, November 9, 2022
“A War on Democracy Has Begun,” The Hill, November 6, 2022 (reprinted in Real Clear Politics)
“It can happen here – it is happening here,” The Hill, November 6, 2022
“History offers the best argument for continuing affirmative action,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Washington Post, October 31, 2022 (reprinted in the History News Network)
“Republicans’ bogus inflation blame game,” The Hill, October 30, 2022
“Florida’s educational gag order: More extensive and damaging than you realize,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, October 23, 2022
“The immigration crisis isn’t what you think it is,” The Hill, October 16, 2022 (and 8 other media outlets)
“Republicans’ born again embrace of ‘big government’,” The Hill, October 9, 2022
“Kevin McCarthy’s 2002 campaign agenda is all hat and no cattle,” The Hill, October 2, 2022
“Should college students follow the money?” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, September 25, 2022 (reprinted in Real Clear Politics)
“Selfserving Republicans are endorsing MAGA extremists,” The Hill, September 18, 2022
“Democrats should not allow extremist MAGA candidates to ‘rebrand’ themselves going into November,” The Hill, September 11, 2022 (reprinted in 15 media outlets)
“Trump must explain what he did and why he did it,” The Hill, September 4, 2022
“What colleges are up against if the Supreme Court bans affirmative action,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, August 28, 2022 (reprinted in Higher Ed Dive, and 20 media outlets)
“Why Democrats are regaining momentum,” The Hill, August 21, 2022
“How Else Can We Protect Freedom of Speech?” coauthored with David Wippman, Letter to the Editor, The Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2022
“Park the snowplow: Parents need to let firstyear college students grow,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, August 14, 2022 (reprinted in 25 media outlets)
“Is there nothing extreme about Doug Mastriano? Nothing at all?” The Hill, August 7, 2022
“Speaking up about college presidents speaking out,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, July 31, 2022 (and 13 media outlets, including the Fresno Bee, Kansas City Star, and Lexington HeraldLeader)
“Republican candidates should be met with skepticism in the ‘ShowMe State’,” The Hill, July 24, 2022
“It’s time for the Democratic Party’s geriatric leaders to relinquish power,” The Hill, July 17, 2022
“Getting off the Title IX roller coaster,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, July 10, 2022 (reprinted in Real Clear Politics)
“House Select Committee must not give the Republican Party a free pass,” The Hill, July 3, 2022
“Colleges should do more to slow down ‘fast thinking’,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, June 26, 2022
“Is the Senate’s gun legislation the first step or the last?” The Hill, June 19, 2022
“Republicans’ ‘big tent’ is now an isolation booth,” The Hill, June 12, 2022
“Republican politicians are hiding behind the Second Amendment,” The Hill, June 5, 2022
“The ‘great replacement’ theory rises again, ending in tragedy,” coauthored with Stuart Blumin, The Washington Post, June 2, 2022
“Gerrymandering, a legal form of vote stealing, more entrenched now than ever,” The Hill, May 29, 2022
“Justice Alito’s alternate abortion ‘facts’,” The Hill, May 22, 2022
“Remaining monolingual is a surefire way for America to fall behind,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, May 15, 2022 (also posted on Microsoft News, May 16, 2022)
“It’s time for Democrats to go on offense in the public school wars,” The Hill, May 8, 2022
“Republican Party’s priorities and playbook are hidden in plain view,” The Hill, May 1, 2022
“Abbott and DeSantis prefer partisan stunts to substantive solutions,” The Hill, April 24, 2022
“Biden administration politically tone deaf on immigration issues,” The Hill, April 17, 2022
“Political Interference in Higher Ed is Becoming Endemic,” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Ed, April 11, 2022 (cited in Academe Magazine, April 12, 2022)
“Florida’s ‘Parental Rights in Education Act’ is unconstitutional, unnecessary, and bigoted,” The Hill, April 10, 2022
“Judge Katanji Brown Jackson’s inquisitors have undermined their own credibility,” The Hill, April 3, 2022
“Biden’s underappreciated achievements in the Ukraine crisis,” The Hill, March 27, 2022
“Bill Barr: Déjà vu all over again,” The Hill, March 20, 2022
“The danger in so many Republicans missing the point,” The Hill, March 13, 2022
“Forget the critics, listen to Trump—and consider his role models,” The Hill, March 6, 2022
“Trumpendorsed Senate candidates are not fit to serve,” The Hill, February 27, 2022
“Race to the bottom in the ‘Sunshine State’,” The Hill, February 20, 2022
“Republicans do not have a right to remain silent,” The Hill, February 13, 2022
“How to protect and promote Campus Civility,” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Education, February 7, 2022
“Supreme Court should look more like America, or so Republicans once thought,” The Hill, February 6, 2022
“Republicans must stop sabotaging voting rights,” The Hill, January 30, 2022
“Gerrymandering is putting US in Mad Max territory,” The Hill, January 23, 2022
“Sen. Ron Johnson: Straight from the horse’s mouth,” The Hill, January 16, 2022
“How to hold unvaccinated Americans accountable,” The Hill, January 9, 2022 (cited in “Health Insurance Surcharges The Key to COVID19 Accountability,” Becker’s Hospital Review, January 10, 2022 and “Make The Unvaccinated Pay,” Hot Air, January 10, 2022)
“With two New Year’s resolutions Donald Trump could secure a more favorable legacy,” The Hill, January 2, 2022
“More appropriate nominees for ‘Person of The Year’,” The Hill, December 26, 2021
“AEI και καινοτομία” (“Universities and Innovation”), TA NEA (The News), Athens, Greece, coauthored with Emmanuel Giannelis and Spiros Anastasiadis, December 22, 2021
“8 Steps to Prepare for a Pandemic That’s becoming Endemic,” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Education, December 20, 2021
“President Biden’s bipartisanship seems like unilateral disarmament,” The Hill, December 19, 2021
“3 Reasons Why Tenure Remains Indispensable,” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Education, December 13, 2021
“The clear and present danger of Jim Jordan & Co.,” The Hill, December 12, 2021
“Kevin McCarthy is hostage to the GOP’s ‘exotic wing’,” The Hill, December 5, 2021
“Vigilantes are not patriots,” The Hill, November 28, 2021
“It’s time to repeal and replace citizen’s arrest laws,” The Hill, November 21, 2021
“How Biden should sell his infrastructure bill,” The Hill, November 14, 2021
“How Colleges Can Counter ‘Cancel Culture’,” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Education, November 9, 2021
“Real conservatives must make a choice,” The Hill, November 7, 2021
“Can compromise make a comeback?”, The Hill, October 31, 2021
“Abuses of executive privilege reveal our system of checks and balances is on life support,” The Hill, October 24, 2021
“Republicans’ mantra should have been ‘stop the spread’,” The Hill, October 17, 2021
“Majority of Americans express dissatisfaction with democracy, and gerrymanderers race to the bottom,” The Hill, October 10, 2021
“No silver bullet for crisis at the Southern border,” The Hill, October 3, 2021
“When books are banned, ‘education is impoverished, and everyone loses’,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hechinger Report, September 28, 2021 (also posted on History News Network)
“Democrats must discuss ‘Build Back Better’s’ content, not just its cost,” The Hill, September 23, 2021
“President Biden’s vaccination plan is constitutional – and necessary,” The Hill, September 19, 2021
“Republicans may regret restricting reproductive rights,” The Hill, September 12, 2021
“In Afghanistan, President Biden had to play the losing hand his predecessors dealt him,” The Hill, August 31, 2021 (featured on Google News)
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott loathes government mandates – unless he loves them,” The Hill, August 29, 2021
“With minority bent on obstruction, US Senate still the place bills go to die,” The Hill, August 22, 2021
“Déjà Vu All Over Again?” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Ed, August 19, 2021
“Republican rhetoric vs reality: Vaccination mandates are Constitutional,” The Hill, August 15, 2021
“Attacked from both sides,” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Ed, August 10, 2021 (included in the AAC&U Weekly Liberal Education News Watch)
“Republicans are the 21stcentury KnowNothing Party,” The Hill, August 8, 2021
“Memo to President Biden: Take your vaccination campaign to Alabama,” The Hill, August 1, 2021
“Want to evaluate Donald Trump’s judgment? Listen to Donald Trump,” The Hill, July 25, 2021
“Removing Confederate statues remains a monumental challenge,” The Hill, July 18, 2021
“Takeaways from the indictment of the Trump Organization,” The Hill, July 11, 2021
“William Barr cannot so easily remove the stain on his reputation,” The Hill, July 4, 2021
“4th of July Facts and Figures,” Ask the Experts, Wallethub.com, June 28, 2021
“How Biden can reframe and reclaim patriotism, faith, freedom, and equality,” The Hill, June 27, 2021
“How Biden can get the infrastructure bill through Congress,” The Hill, June 15, 2021
“It’s Time for a ‘Don’t Trust, Do Verify’ USRussia Cybersecurity Treaty,” coauthored with Justin Lifflander, the History News Network, June 13, 2021
“The New Meaning of ‘The Loyal Opposition’,” the History News Network, June 6, 2021
“Why Republican politicians are sticking with Trump,” The Hill, May 21, 2021
“Bipartisanship has become a partisan weapon,” The Hill, May 16, 2021
“Biden’s American Families Plan will pay for itself,” The Hill, May 9, 2021 (syndicated to MSN)
“How the United States can pass Civics 101,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, May 2, 2021 (republished by the History News Network, May 2, 2021)
“Research Universities and the Innovation Economy,” coauthored with Michael I. Kotlikoff and Emmanuel P. Giannelis, Inside Higher Ed, April 27, 2021
“The Republicans’ deep dive into nativism,” The Hill, April 25, 2021
“Why President Biden is allin in infrastructure,” The Hill, April 18, 2021
“Police reforms are a minefield, even in progressive communities,” The Hill, April 11, 2021
“America’s infrastructure: You get what you pay for,” The Hill, April 4, 2021
“The filibuster has no redeeming virtues,” The Hill, March 28, 2021
“Worst person in America contest?” The Hill, March 21, 2021
“Biden can strengthen labor unions, with or without Congress,” The Hill, March 10, 2021
“Two Republicans can stop voter suppression,” The Hill, March 7, 2021
“Skedaddle excuses say much about character of ‘Cancun Cruz,’” The Hill, February 28, 2021
“Is the ‘civil war’ in the Republican Party really over?” The Hill, February 21, 2021
“We know how Republicans will vote—but what do they believe?” The Hill, February 12, 2021
“Democrats should make the ‘BeeGees’ the face of the Republican Party,” The Hill, February 7, 2021
“Congressional Democrats are on the wrong side of impeachment politics,” The Hill, January 31, 2021
“The 1776 presidential commissioners forgot that dissent is as American as hero worship,” coauthored with David Wippman, History News Network, January 31, 2021
“Remembering Hank Aaron,” The Florida Courier, January 29, 2021
“Presidential pardons need to go,” The Hill, January 20, 2021
“Can we protect our country—from our rulers, and ourselves?” The Hill, January 17, 2021
“How colleges can spring forward,” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Ed, January 11, 2021
“Let’s make Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 the day Trumpism died,” The Hill, January 7, 2021
“Minimum wage hike could be Biden’s bipartisan breakthrough,” The Hill, January 3, 2021
“Nothing becomes Donald Trump’s presidency like his leaving it,” The Hill, December 27, 2020
“Joe Biden needs a new communications strategy,” The Hill, December 20, 2020
“Making higher education great again,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, December 13, 2020
“Four reasons Donald Trump will likely become a spent force,” The Hill, December 6, 2020
“Let’s give thanks to Republican defenders of democracy,” The Hill, November 26, 2020
“Team Trump offering ‘fire hose’ of conspiracy KoolAid for supporters,” The Hill, November 22, 2020
“We need a (common) ‘sense of the senate’ resolution on transition planning,” The Hill, November 13, 2020
“Republicans can—and must—ensure a peaceful transfer of power,” The Hill, November 8, 2020
“America divided? Not on everything,” The Hill, November 1, 2020
“President Trump: To know him is to ‘No’ him,” The Hill, October 26, 2020
“Batten Down the Hatch Act: Trump using tax dollars to boost his ‘brand’,” The Hill, October 19, 2020
“President Trump isn’t learning—he’s too busy talking,” The Hill, October 13, 2020
“Wildfire Lectures from America’s InstructureinChief,” The Hill, September 20, 2020
“Trump’s 2020 Strategy: ‘There’s One Born Every Minute’,” The Hill, September 13, 2020
“Faced with few options, colleges must make their case,” The Hill, September 9, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“Blame shifting on campuses over Coronavirus,” The Hill, September 6, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“Conspicuous by their absence from the Republican Convention,” The Hill, August 30, 2020
“Have We No Republicans With Any Conscience To Declare?,” The Hill, August 23, 2020
“Broken Promises in a Time of ‘Plague’,” The Hill, August 16, 2020
“Trump’s Contempt for Advice and Consent”, The Hill, August 10, 2020
“The Choice: A Healer or a Heel,” The Hill, August 2, 2020
“Are Republican Governors Living In A Parallel Universe?,” The Hill, July 23, 2020
“Memo To President Trump: College Students Are Not Sponges,” The Hill, July 14, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“Trump Flails As Audience Dwindles And Ratings Plummet,” The Hill, July 12, 2020
“’Principal Legacy’ A Useful Concept In Removing Monuments And Renaming Bases And Buildings,” The Hill, July 1, 2020
“College Towns Have Been Clobbered By COVID19,” The Hill, June 25, 2020
“Let’s Rename Army Bases Honoring Confederate Officers,” The Florida Courier, June 19, 2020
“When Will Americans – All Americans – Declare That Enough Is Enough?,” The Hill, June 16, 2020
“President Trump Is Bringing New Meaning To The Phrase ‘Bully Pulpit’,” The Hill, June 4, 2020
“How Colleges Can Keep The Coronavirus Off Campus,” The New York Times, June 1, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman) (referred to in “Opinion Today,” by James Bennett, Editorial Page Editor, The New York Times, June 2, 2020)
“The Hollowing Out Of The CDC,” The Hill, May 31, 2020
“The Other Dangerous Virus Infecting Our Country,” The Hill, May 24, 2020
“America Is Dying To Reelect Trump,” The Hill, May 17, 2020
“Remembering Little Richard, The Architect Of Rock ‘N’ Roll,” The Florida Courier, May 16, 2020
“The Crude And Callous Coronavirus Calculation Of Chris Christie And Donald Trump,” The Hill, May 10, 2020
“April’s Dumbest And Most Dangerous Coronavirus Declarations,” The Hill, May 3, 2020
“Higher Education’s ‘To Do’ List – The Consequences of Coronavirus,” The Hill, April 26, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman) (cited in Inside Philanthropy [online] insidephilanthropy.com, May 4, 2020)
“Testing Gen Z,” Inside Higher Ed, April 20, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“The ScapegoaterInChief Is At It Again – And Again,” The Hill, April 19, 2020
“How Reporters Should Handle Coronavirus Briefings,” The Hill, April 12, 2020
“Is The Coronavirus Igniting A War Of All Against All?,” The Hill, April 5, 2020
“’Try Getting It Yourselves’ – Trump’s Coronavirus Strategy,” The Hill, March 30, 2020
“How America’s Undergraduates Can Survive – And Thrive – At Home,” The Hill, March 24, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“Memo To Bernie Sanders: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out,” The Hill, March 18, 2020
“With Trump, The Buck Stops…Somewhere Else,” The Hill, March 15, 2020
“A Plea To Bernie Sanders: Stay Grumpy, But Not Trumpy,” The Hill, March 2, 2020
“President Trump’s Assault On Checks And Balances,” The Hill, February 24, 2020
“The Antitrust Hammer Hits College Admissions,” The Hill, February 18, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“The Latest Assault On Freedom Of The Press,” The Hill, February 2, 2020
“Proposed Changes To Title IX Will Not Solve The Problem Of Sexual Assaults On College Campuses,” The Hill, January 5, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“The ‘Green’ New Deal That Tom Perez Needs To Make,” The Hill, December 15, 2019
“Inventing The ‘Deep State’ And Draining The Real One,” The Hill, December 8, 2019 (coauthored with Sidney Tarrow)
“Memo To Democrats: What’s The Rush?,” The Hill, November 28, 2019 (coauthored with Sidney Tarrow)
“Betsy DeVos Is Giving Defrauded Student Debtors The Back Of Her Hand,” The Hill, November 25, 2019 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“The Democratic Race For President May Not Sort Itself Out,” The Hill, November 17, 2019
“Intercollegiate Athletics Just Got A TwoMinute Warning,” The Hill, November 10, 2019 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“Trump’s Defenders Are Running Out Of Options,” The Hill, October 30, 2019
“Why The GOP March Of Mad Hatters Poses A Threat To Our Democracy,” The Hill, October 27, 2019
“Combatting Fake News On Social Media Will Take A Village,” The Hill, October 20, 2019 (coauthored with Sidney Tarrow)
“10 Top Republicans Who Continue To Deny The Undeniable,” The Hill, October 14, 2019
“Trump’s Tirades, Taunts, And Threats Are Damaging Our Democracy,” The Hill, October 6, 2019
“Betsy DeVos’s Playbook Of Political Correctness,” The Hill, September 29, 2019
“Election Meddling Has Become The New Normal Of US Diplomacy,” The Hill, September 22, 2019
“Donald Trump Is A ‘Sometimes Socialist,’” The Hill, September 9, 2019
“The Dark Side Of Progress: We’re Ignoring The Most Potent Threat To WorkingClass Americans,” The Hill, September 1, 2019
“How To Excel At University: Ten Recommendations For FirstYear Undergraduates,” The Hill, August 27, 2019 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“President Trump Is Right: Mainstream Media ‘Do A Very Good Job,’” The Hill, August 18, 2019
“ForProfit Immigration Detention Centers Are A National Scandal,” The Hill, August 12, 2019
“A Plea To Progressive Political Pundits: Stop Wringing Your Hands,” The Hill, August 5, 2019
“ForProfit Colleges – But Not Their Student ‘Customers’ – Have A Friend In Betsy DeVos,” The Hill, July 28, 2019
“Lindsey Graham’s Faustian Bargain,” The Hill, July 18, 2019
“What Democrats Should Say About Guns,” The Hill, July 15, 2019 (excerpted in the New York Post July 15, 2019)
“Memo To The Democratic Presidential Candidates: Stop Raising Your Hands,” The Hill, July 7, 2019
“’I Alone Can Fix It,’ Trump Said, But Has He?,” The Hill, June 30, 2019
“How To Make College Accessible To Students From Rural Communities,” The Hill, June 19, 2019
“Democrats Should Initiate A ‘Fire Mitch McConnell’ Campaign,” The Hill, June 12, 2019
“Supreme Court Should Postpone Decision On Trump’s Citizenship Census Question,” The Hill, June 5, 2019
“How Congress Can Take Back Control Over Tariffs,” The Hill, June 2, 2019
“This Time, The Democrats Can Win A Culture War,” The Hill, May 26, 2019
“A RealityBased Game For Trump Watchers: Name That Fallacy,” The Hill, May 16, 2019
“The Democrats Need A Long Game,” The Hill, May 9, 2019 (coauthored with Sidney Tarrow)
“The Student Debt Crisis Isn’t What You Think It Is,” The Hill, May 5, 2019
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“How using ‘high dominance’ rhetoric can help Biden beat Trump,” The Hill, May 5, 2024 (and 7 other media outlets)
“This obscure procedure can restore majority rule in the House of Representatives,” The Hill, April 28, 2024 (and 1 other media outlet)
“What Trump’s abortion flip-flops reveal,” The Hill, April 21, 2024 (and 3 other media outlets)
“A glimmer of hope for Gaza,” The Hill, April 14, 2024 (and 3 other media outlets)
“The judges who threw Trump a lifeline are the kind of people he usually loves to hate,” The Hill, April 7, 2024 (and 2 other media outlets)
“Lessons from the National Association of Realtors settlement for the 2024 election,” The Hill, March 31, 2024 (and 2 other media outlets)
“Trump’s TikTok Tics,” The Hill, March 24, 2024
“What if Trump does what he’s saying he’ll do?” The Hill, March 17, 2024
“America should learn from France’s protection of abortion rights,” The Hill, March 5, 2024 (and 2 other media outlets)
“Deliver us from America’s huckster-in-chief,” The Hill, March 3, 2024 (and 3 other media outlets)
“Even in recess, House GOP priorities are all screwed up,” The Hill, February 25, 2024
“The stakes in Ukraine are too high for the House GOP’s partisan nonsense,” The Hill, February 14, 2024
“Let’s listen to what Trump is saying about how he’d govern,” The Hill, February 11, 2024 (and 7 other media outlets)
“RFK Jr. has a lot of explaining to do,” The Hill, February 4, 2024 (and 2 other media outlets)
“Amend the Constitution to guarantee Americans the right to vote,” The Hill, January 28, 2024 (and 4 other media outlets)
“The Antitax Movement Gets Failing Grades,” The Messenger, January 23, 2024
“The instructive history of book bans,” (co-authored with David Wippman), The Hill, January 21, 2024 (reposted on MSN and Real Clear Politics)
“Is it too late to end America’s ‘democratic recession’?” The Hill, January 14, 2024
“House Republicans prefer political theater to passing laws,” The Hill, January 7, 2024 (including 3 other media outlets)
“Six Americans who left lasting legacies in 2023,” The Hill, December 31, 2023 (and 3 other media outlets)
“The elephant in the Giuliani defamation courtroom,” The Hill, December 24, 2023 (and 5 other media outlets)
"The campus war of words over antisemitism and the BDS movement" (co-authored with David Wippman), The Hill, December 17, 2023 (and 4 other media outlets)
“No, expelling George Santos didn’t set a bad precedent,” The Hill, December 10, 2023 (and 4 other media outlets)
“Higher Ed, Indoctrination and Miseducation,” Letter to the Editor (co-authored with David Wippman), Wall Street Journal, December 7, 2023
“Tommy Tuberville and the Future of the Single Senator Veto,” The Hill, December 3, 2023 (and 5 other media outlets)
“Why American politics has become vulgar and violent,” The Hill, November 26, 2023 (and 8 other media outlets)
“What the history of campus hate speech codes teaches us about fighting antisemitism,” (co-authored with David Wippman), The Hill, November 19, 2023 (and 2 other media outlets) (syndicated to MSN)
“Did last week’s elections mark the end of the anti-woke ‘parents’ rights’ movement?” (co-authored with David Wippman), The Hill, November 14, 2023
“Higher education’s perfect storm is becoming a tsunami,” (co-authored with David Wippman), The Hill, November 12, 2023 (and 5 other media outlets)
"How democracy dies right here in America," The Hill, November 5, 2023 (and 3 other media outlets)
“They looked over Jim Jordan, and what did they see?,” The Hill, October 24, 2023 (and 1 other media outlet)
“The tyranny of the GOP isolationist minority,” The Hill, October 22, 2023
"Will Trump's loose lips sink his ship?" The Hill, October 15, 2023 (and 8 other media outlets)
"Why Republicans in Congress aren't condemning corrupt politicians," The Hill, October 8, 2023 (and 3 other media outlets)
"The doubtful convictions of Donald J. Trump," The Hill, October 1, 2023 (and 6 other media outlets)
"Is Hunter Biden actually getting a 'sweetheart deal'?" The Hill, September 24, 2023 (and 5 other media outlets)
"How colleges can address online harassment," (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, September 17, 2023
"In praise of Republican guardians of liberty," The Hill, September 10, 2023 (and 7 other media outlets)
"This Labor Day, the deck is still stacked against unions," The Hill, September 3, 2023 (and 6 other media outlets)
"Climate deniers are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts," The Hill, August 27, 2023 (and 6 other media outlets)
“Trump’s pre-trial ‘testimony’,” The Hill, August 20, 2023 (and 7 other media outlets)
"45 pages every American should read,” The Hill, August 13, 2023 (and 6 other media outlets)
“Biden is getting a bad rap,” The Hill, August 6, 2023
“Florida’s new Black history standards are misleading and offensive,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, July 30, 2023 (and 5 other media outlets)
“Worries about a gender gap on campuses oversimplify the situation,” (coauthored with David Wippman), Washington Post, July 26, 2023
“ConspiracyMongers in Congress: Republicans go off the deep end,” The Hill, July 23, 2023 (and 6 other media outlets)
“Oklahoma is turning a blind eye on its own history” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, July 16, 2023 (syndicated to MSN)
“Does grading make the grade?” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Pittsburgh PostGazette, July 16, 2023
“Six reasons why Moms for Liberty is an extremist organization,” The Hill, July 9, 2023 (and 6 U.S. and 11 international media outlets, including the Berliner Morganpost)
“Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sport,” (coauthored with David Wippman), Letters to the Editor, New York Times, July 5, 2023
“Republicans are weaponization wannabes,” The Hill, July 2, 2023 (syndicated to MSN, and 5 other media outlets)
“How low will Speaker McCarthy go?” The Hill, June 25, 2023
“Trump is right that America is in mortal danger. He’s dead wrong about the cause.” The Hill, June 12, 2023 (and 6 other media outlets)
“Trump and DeSantis race to the bottom,” The Hill, June 11, 2023 (syndicated to MSN, and 7 other media outlets).
“Debating Race and Rights in College, Admissions,” (coauthored with David Wippman), Letters to the Editor, Wall Street Journal, June 5, 2023
“Don’t let one senator hold all military promotions hostage,” The Hill, June 4, 2023 (and 8 other media outlets)
“We Have A Civics Education Crisis – And Deep Divisions On How To Solve It,” (coauthored with David Wippman), Washington Post, May 31, 2023 (reposted in History News Network)
“Florida’s antiLGBTQ laws are unwarranted and unAmerican,” The Hill, May 28, 2023N
“Bail reform, crime waves and the fake news about them,” The Hill, May 21, 2023
“The empty chair at the Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy trials,” The Hill, May 14, 2023 (syndicated to MSN)
“Stop the steal—the Republican steal,” The Hill, May 7, 2023
“The right’s demonization of campus diversity, equity and inclusion programs must end,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, April 30, 2023 (syndicated to MSN)
“Abortion is now political Kryptonite for Republicans,” The Hill, April 23, 2023 (syndicated to MSN)
“The threat to Democracy behind the farce in Tennessee,” The Hill, April 11, 2023 (syndicated to MSN)
“The myth of ‘woke’ indoctrination of students,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, April 9, 2023 (reposted on History News Network and syndicated to MSN)
“Most consequential election of 2023 will be held Tuesday,” The Hill, April 2, 2023
“Republicans want history to hold Donald Trump accountable – when it won’t matter,” The Hill, March 26, 2023 (syndicated to MSN)
“The Lifelong Benefits of English Class,” (coauthored with David Wippman), Letters to the Editor, New York Times, March 25, 2023
“Getting to ‘Yes’ on civics education,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, March 19, 2023
“2024 Republican primaries may be a rerun of 2016,” The Hill, March 12, 2023
“Language Control in Education is Indeed A Problem,” (coauthored with David Wippman), Letters to the Editor, Washington Post, March 12, 2023
“What if Marjorie Taylor Greene’s secessionist fantasy came true?,” The Hill, March 5, 2023 (syndicated to MSN)
“Jimmy Carter continues to teach us what it means to live a good life,” The Hill, February 22, 2023
“Police reforms can save lives, save money, and strengthen law enforcement,” The Hill, February 19, 2023
“Solving the Dual Crises of Democracy and Capitalism,” The Pittsburgh PostGazette, February 19, 2023
“An Existential Threat to Academic Freedom,” Letter to the Editor (coauthored with David Wippman), The Wall Street Journal, February 14, 2023
“MAGA Republicans have shown us their cards,” The Hill, February 12, 2023
“Florida is trying to roll back a century of gains for academic freedom,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Washington Post, February 6, 2023 (and reposted in History News Network)
“An ambitious, bipartisan prolife legislative agenda,” The Hill, February 5, 2023
“What Americans don’t know about other countries does hurt us,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, January 29, 2023
“What Belongs In Marketplaces of Ideas?” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Washington Post, January 27, 2023
“‘Mirror, Mirror’— Who’s the fairest ‘weaponizer’ of them all?” The Hill, January 22, 2023
“Republicans: attacking the IRS is a nolose proposition, right?” The Hill, January 10, 2023
“George Santos: The latest — and lamest — product of the normalization of lying,” The Hill, January 8, 2023
“For election deniers, 2022 ended not with a bang but with a whimper,” The Hill, January 1, 2023
“Preparing to ‘play chicken’ with default: Understanding Republicans’ ‘debt limit terror’,” The Hill, December 25, 2022
“Donald Trump brings new meaning to ‘guilt by association’,” The Hill, December 18, 2022
“Is College Too Hard?” (coauthored with David Wippman), Inside Higher Ed, December 14, 2022
“Trump certainly has had ‘a great fall’,” The Hill, December 7, 2022
“What’s the matter with Arizona?” The Hill, December 4, 2022
“In Donald Trump’s America, facts are fungible,” The Hill, November 27, 2022
“A Thanksgiving week shoutout to the other Bill Gates,” The Hill, November 20, 2022
“Is Donald Trump the gift that keeps on giving – to Democrats?” The Hill, November 9, 2022
“A War on Democracy Has Begun,” The Hill, November 6, 2022 (reprinted in Real Clear Politics)
“It can happen here – it is happening here,” The Hill, November 6, 2022
“History offers the best argument for continuing affirmative action,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Washington Post, October 31, 2022 (reprinted in the History News Network)
“Republicans’ bogus inflation blame game,” The Hill, October 30, 2022
“Florida’s educational gag order: More extensive and damaging than you realize,” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, October 23, 2022
“The immigration crisis isn’t what you think it is,” The Hill, October 16, 2022 (and 8 other media outlets)
“Republicans’ born again embrace of ‘big government’,” The Hill, October 9, 2022
“Kevin McCarthy’s 2002 campaign agenda is all hat and no cattle,” The Hill, October 2, 2022
“Should college students follow the money?” (coauthored with David Wippman), The Hill, September 25, 2022 (reprinted in Real Clear Politics)
“Selfserving Republicans are endorsing MAGA extremists,” The Hill, September 18, 2022
“Democrats should not allow extremist MAGA candidates to ‘rebrand’ themselves going into November,” The Hill, September 11, 2022 (reprinted in 15 media outlets)
“Trump must explain what he did and why he did it,” The Hill, September 4, 2022
“What colleges are up against if the Supreme Court bans affirmative action,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, August 28, 2022 (reprinted in Higher Ed Dive, and 20 media outlets)
“Why Democrats are regaining momentum,” The Hill, August 21, 2022
“How Else Can We Protect Freedom of Speech?” coauthored with David Wippman, Letter to the Editor, The Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2022
“Park the snowplow: Parents need to let firstyear college students grow,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, August 14, 2022 (reprinted in 25 media outlets)
“Is there nothing extreme about Doug Mastriano? Nothing at all?” The Hill, August 7, 2022
“Speaking up about college presidents speaking out,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, July 31, 2022 (and 13 media outlets, including the Fresno Bee, Kansas City Star, and Lexington HeraldLeader)
“Republican candidates should be met with skepticism in the ‘ShowMe State’,” The Hill, July 24, 2022
“It’s time for the Democratic Party’s geriatric leaders to relinquish power,” The Hill, July 17, 2022
“Getting off the Title IX roller coaster,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, July 10, 2022 (reprinted in Real Clear Politics)
“House Select Committee must not give the Republican Party a free pass,” The Hill, July 3, 2022
“Colleges should do more to slow down ‘fast thinking’,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, June 26, 2022
“Is the Senate’s gun legislation the first step or the last?” The Hill, June 19, 2022
“Republicans’ ‘big tent’ is now an isolation booth,” The Hill, June 12, 2022
“Republican politicians are hiding behind the Second Amendment,” The Hill, June 5, 2022
“The ‘great replacement’ theory rises again, ending in tragedy,” coauthored with Stuart Blumin, The Washington Post, June 2, 2022
“Gerrymandering, a legal form of vote stealing, more entrenched now than ever,” The Hill, May 29, 2022
“Justice Alito’s alternate abortion ‘facts’,” The Hill, May 22, 2022
“Remaining monolingual is a surefire way for America to fall behind,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, May 15, 2022 (also posted on Microsoft News, May 16, 2022)
“It’s time for Democrats to go on offense in the public school wars,” The Hill, May 8, 2022
“Republican Party’s priorities and playbook are hidden in plain view,” The Hill, May 1, 2022
“Abbott and DeSantis prefer partisan stunts to substantive solutions,” The Hill, April 24, 2022
“Biden administration politically tone deaf on immigration issues,” The Hill, April 17, 2022
“Political Interference in Higher Ed is Becoming Endemic,” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Ed, April 11, 2022 (cited in Academe Magazine, April 12, 2022)
“Florida’s ‘Parental Rights in Education Act’ is unconstitutional, unnecessary, and bigoted,” The Hill, April 10, 2022
“Judge Katanji Brown Jackson’s inquisitors have undermined their own credibility,” The Hill, April 3, 2022
“Biden’s underappreciated achievements in the Ukraine crisis,” The Hill, March 27, 2022
“Bill Barr: Déjà vu all over again,” The Hill, March 20, 2022
“The danger in so many Republicans missing the point,” The Hill, March 13, 2022
“Forget the critics, listen to Trump—and consider his role models,” The Hill, March 6, 2022
“Trumpendorsed Senate candidates are not fit to serve,” The Hill, February 27, 2022
“Race to the bottom in the ‘Sunshine State’,” The Hill, February 20, 2022
“Republicans do not have a right to remain silent,” The Hill, February 13, 2022
“How to protect and promote Campus Civility,” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Education, February 7, 2022
“Supreme Court should look more like America, or so Republicans once thought,” The Hill, February 6, 2022
“Republicans must stop sabotaging voting rights,” The Hill, January 30, 2022
“Gerrymandering is putting US in Mad Max territory,” The Hill, January 23, 2022
“Sen. Ron Johnson: Straight from the horse’s mouth,” The Hill, January 16, 2022
“How to hold unvaccinated Americans accountable,” The Hill, January 9, 2022 (cited in “Health Insurance Surcharges The Key to COVID19 Accountability,” Becker’s Hospital Review, January 10, 2022 and “Make The Unvaccinated Pay,” Hot Air, January 10, 2022)
“With two New Year’s resolutions Donald Trump could secure a more favorable legacy,” The Hill, January 2, 2022
“More appropriate nominees for ‘Person of The Year’,” The Hill, December 26, 2021
“AEI και καινοτομία” (“Universities and Innovation”), TA NEA (The News), Athens, Greece, coauthored with Emmanuel Giannelis and Spiros Anastasiadis, December 22, 2021
“8 Steps to Prepare for a Pandemic That’s becoming Endemic,” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Education, December 20, 2021
“President Biden’s bipartisanship seems like unilateral disarmament,” The Hill, December 19, 2021
“3 Reasons Why Tenure Remains Indispensable,” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Education, December 13, 2021
“The clear and present danger of Jim Jordan & Co.,” The Hill, December 12, 2021
“Kevin McCarthy is hostage to the GOP’s ‘exotic wing’,” The Hill, December 5, 2021
“Vigilantes are not patriots,” The Hill, November 28, 2021
“It’s time to repeal and replace citizen’s arrest laws,” The Hill, November 21, 2021
“How Biden should sell his infrastructure bill,” The Hill, November 14, 2021
“How Colleges Can Counter ‘Cancel Culture’,” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Education, November 9, 2021
“Real conservatives must make a choice,” The Hill, November 7, 2021
“Can compromise make a comeback?”, The Hill, October 31, 2021
“Abuses of executive privilege reveal our system of checks and balances is on life support,” The Hill, October 24, 2021
“Republicans’ mantra should have been ‘stop the spread’,” The Hill, October 17, 2021
“Majority of Americans express dissatisfaction with democracy, and gerrymanderers race to the bottom,” The Hill, October 10, 2021
“No silver bullet for crisis at the Southern border,” The Hill, October 3, 2021
“When books are banned, ‘education is impoverished, and everyone loses’,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hechinger Report, September 28, 2021 (also posted on History News Network)
“Democrats must discuss ‘Build Back Better’s’ content, not just its cost,” The Hill, September 23, 2021
“President Biden’s vaccination plan is constitutional – and necessary,” The Hill, September 19, 2021
“Republicans may regret restricting reproductive rights,” The Hill, September 12, 2021
“In Afghanistan, President Biden had to play the losing hand his predecessors dealt him,” The Hill, August 31, 2021 (featured on Google News)
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott loathes government mandates – unless he loves them,” The Hill, August 29, 2021
“With minority bent on obstruction, US Senate still the place bills go to die,” The Hill, August 22, 2021
“Déjà Vu All Over Again?” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Ed, August 19, 2021
“Republican rhetoric vs reality: Vaccination mandates are Constitutional,” The Hill, August 15, 2021
“Attacked from both sides,” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Ed, August 10, 2021 (included in the AAC&U Weekly Liberal Education News Watch)
“Republicans are the 21stcentury KnowNothing Party,” The Hill, August 8, 2021
“Memo to President Biden: Take your vaccination campaign to Alabama,” The Hill, August 1, 2021
“Want to evaluate Donald Trump’s judgment? Listen to Donald Trump,” The Hill, July 25, 2021
“Removing Confederate statues remains a monumental challenge,” The Hill, July 18, 2021
“Takeaways from the indictment of the Trump Organization,” The Hill, July 11, 2021
“William Barr cannot so easily remove the stain on his reputation,” The Hill, July 4, 2021
“4th of July Facts and Figures,” Ask the Experts, Wallethub.com, June 28, 2021
“How Biden can reframe and reclaim patriotism, faith, freedom, and equality,” The Hill, June 27, 2021
“How Biden can get the infrastructure bill through Congress,” The Hill, June 15, 2021
“It’s Time for a ‘Don’t Trust, Do Verify’ USRussia Cybersecurity Treaty,” coauthored with Justin Lifflander, the History News Network, June 13, 2021
“The New Meaning of ‘The Loyal Opposition’,” the History News Network, June 6, 2021
“Why Republican politicians are sticking with Trump,” The Hill, May 21, 2021
“Bipartisanship has become a partisan weapon,” The Hill, May 16, 2021
“Biden’s American Families Plan will pay for itself,” The Hill, May 9, 2021 (syndicated to MSN)
“How the United States can pass Civics 101,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, May 2, 2021 (republished by the History News Network, May 2, 2021)
“Research Universities and the Innovation Economy,” coauthored with Michael I. Kotlikoff and Emmanuel P. Giannelis, Inside Higher Ed, April 27, 2021
“The Republicans’ deep dive into nativism,” The Hill, April 25, 2021
“Why President Biden is allin in infrastructure,” The Hill, April 18, 2021
“Police reforms are a minefield, even in progressive communities,” The Hill, April 11, 2021
“America’s infrastructure: You get what you pay for,” The Hill, April 4, 2021
“The filibuster has no redeeming virtues,” The Hill, March 28, 2021
“Worst person in America contest?” The Hill, March 21, 2021
“Biden can strengthen labor unions, with or without Congress,” The Hill, March 10, 2021
“Two Republicans can stop voter suppression,” The Hill, March 7, 2021
“Skedaddle excuses say much about character of ‘Cancun Cruz,’” The Hill, February 28, 2021
“Is the ‘civil war’ in the Republican Party really over?” The Hill, February 21, 2021
“We know how Republicans will vote—but what do they believe?” The Hill, February 12, 2021
“Democrats should make the ‘BeeGees’ the face of the Republican Party,” The Hill, February 7, 2021
“Congressional Democrats are on the wrong side of impeachment politics,” The Hill, January 31, 2021
“The 1776 presidential commissioners forgot that dissent is as American as hero worship,” coauthored with David Wippman, History News Network, January 31, 2021
“Remembering Hank Aaron,” The Florida Courier, January 29, 2021
“Presidential pardons need to go,” The Hill, January 20, 2021
“Can we protect our country—from our rulers, and ourselves?” The Hill, January 17, 2021
“How colleges can spring forward,” coauthored with David Wippman, Inside Higher Ed, January 11, 2021
“Let’s make Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 the day Trumpism died,” The Hill, January 7, 2021
“Minimum wage hike could be Biden’s bipartisan breakthrough,” The Hill, January 3, 2021
“Nothing becomes Donald Trump’s presidency like his leaving it,” The Hill, December 27, 2020
“Joe Biden needs a new communications strategy,” The Hill, December 20, 2020
“Making higher education great again,” coauthored with David Wippman, The Hill, December 13, 2020
“Four reasons Donald Trump will likely become a spent force,” The Hill, December 6, 2020
“Let’s give thanks to Republican defenders of democracy,” The Hill, November 26, 2020
“Team Trump offering ‘fire hose’ of conspiracy KoolAid for supporters,” The Hill, November 22, 2020
“We need a (common) ‘sense of the senate’ resolution on transition planning,” The Hill, November 13, 2020
“Republicans can—and must—ensure a peaceful transfer of power,” The Hill, November 8, 2020
“America divided? Not on everything,” The Hill, November 1, 2020
“President Trump: To know him is to ‘No’ him,” The Hill, October 26, 2020
“Batten Down the Hatch Act: Trump using tax dollars to boost his ‘brand’,” The Hill, October 19, 2020
“President Trump isn’t learning—he’s too busy talking,” The Hill, October 13, 2020
“Wildfire Lectures from America’s InstructureinChief,” The Hill, September 20, 2020
“Trump’s 2020 Strategy: ‘There’s One Born Every Minute’,” The Hill, September 13, 2020
“Faced with few options, colleges must make their case,” The Hill, September 9, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“Blame shifting on campuses over Coronavirus,” The Hill, September 6, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“Conspicuous by their absence from the Republican Convention,” The Hill, August 30, 2020
“Have We No Republicans With Any Conscience To Declare?,” The Hill, August 23, 2020
“Broken Promises in a Time of ‘Plague’,” The Hill, August 16, 2020
“Trump’s Contempt for Advice and Consent”, The Hill, August 10, 2020
“The Choice: A Healer or a Heel,” The Hill, August 2, 2020
“Are Republican Governors Living In A Parallel Universe?,” The Hill, July 23, 2020
“Memo To President Trump: College Students Are Not Sponges,” The Hill, July 14, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“Trump Flails As Audience Dwindles And Ratings Plummet,” The Hill, July 12, 2020
“’Principal Legacy’ A Useful Concept In Removing Monuments And Renaming Bases And Buildings,” The Hill, July 1, 2020
“College Towns Have Been Clobbered By COVID19,” The Hill, June 25, 2020
“Let’s Rename Army Bases Honoring Confederate Officers,” The Florida Courier, June 19, 2020
“When Will Americans – All Americans – Declare That Enough Is Enough?,” The Hill, June 16, 2020
“President Trump Is Bringing New Meaning To The Phrase ‘Bully Pulpit’,” The Hill, June 4, 2020
“How Colleges Can Keep The Coronavirus Off Campus,” The New York Times, June 1, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman) (referred to in “Opinion Today,” by James Bennett, Editorial Page Editor, The New York Times, June 2, 2020)
“The Hollowing Out Of The CDC,” The Hill, May 31, 2020
“The Other Dangerous Virus Infecting Our Country,” The Hill, May 24, 2020
“America Is Dying To Reelect Trump,” The Hill, May 17, 2020
“Remembering Little Richard, The Architect Of Rock ‘N’ Roll,” The Florida Courier, May 16, 2020
“The Crude And Callous Coronavirus Calculation Of Chris Christie And Donald Trump,” The Hill, May 10, 2020
“April’s Dumbest And Most Dangerous Coronavirus Declarations,” The Hill, May 3, 2020
“Higher Education’s ‘To Do’ List – The Consequences of Coronavirus,” The Hill, April 26, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman) (cited in Inside Philanthropy [online] insidephilanthropy.com, May 4, 2020)
“Testing Gen Z,” Inside Higher Ed, April 20, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“The ScapegoaterInChief Is At It Again – And Again,” The Hill, April 19, 2020
“How Reporters Should Handle Coronavirus Briefings,” The Hill, April 12, 2020
“Is The Coronavirus Igniting A War Of All Against All?,” The Hill, April 5, 2020
“’Try Getting It Yourselves’ – Trump’s Coronavirus Strategy,” The Hill, March 30, 2020
“How America’s Undergraduates Can Survive – And Thrive – At Home,” The Hill, March 24, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“Memo To Bernie Sanders: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out,” The Hill, March 18, 2020
“With Trump, The Buck Stops…Somewhere Else,” The Hill, March 15, 2020
“A Plea To Bernie Sanders: Stay Grumpy, But Not Trumpy,” The Hill, March 2, 2020
“President Trump’s Assault On Checks And Balances,” The Hill, February 24, 2020
“The Antitrust Hammer Hits College Admissions,” The Hill, February 18, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“The Latest Assault On Freedom Of The Press,” The Hill, February 2, 2020
“Proposed Changes To Title IX Will Not Solve The Problem Of Sexual Assaults On College Campuses,” The Hill, January 5, 2020 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“The ‘Green’ New Deal That Tom Perez Needs To Make,” The Hill, December 15, 2019
“Inventing The ‘Deep State’ And Draining The Real One,” The Hill, December 8, 2019 (coauthored with Sidney Tarrow)
“Memo To Democrats: What’s The Rush?,” The Hill, November 28, 2019 (coauthored with Sidney Tarrow)
“Betsy DeVos Is Giving Defrauded Student Debtors The Back Of Her Hand,” The Hill, November 25, 2019 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“The Democratic Race For President May Not Sort Itself Out,” The Hill, November 17, 2019
“Intercollegiate Athletics Just Got A TwoMinute Warning,” The Hill, November 10, 2019 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“Trump’s Defenders Are Running Out Of Options,” The Hill, October 30, 2019
“Why The GOP March Of Mad Hatters Poses A Threat To Our Democracy,” The Hill, October 27, 2019
“Combatting Fake News On Social Media Will Take A Village,” The Hill, October 20, 2019 (coauthored with Sidney Tarrow)
“10 Top Republicans Who Continue To Deny The Undeniable,” The Hill, October 14, 2019
“Trump’s Tirades, Taunts, And Threats Are Damaging Our Democracy,” The Hill, October 6, 2019
“Betsy DeVos’s Playbook Of Political Correctness,” The Hill, September 29, 2019
“Election Meddling Has Become The New Normal Of US Diplomacy,” The Hill, September 22, 2019
“Donald Trump Is A ‘Sometimes Socialist,’” The Hill, September 9, 2019
“The Dark Side Of Progress: We’re Ignoring The Most Potent Threat To WorkingClass Americans,” The Hill, September 1, 2019
“How To Excel At University: Ten Recommendations For FirstYear Undergraduates,” The Hill, August 27, 2019 (coauthored with David Wippman)
“President Trump Is Right: Mainstream Media ‘Do A Very Good Job,’” The Hill, August 18, 2019
“ForProfit Immigration Detention Centers Are A National Scandal,” The Hill, August 12, 2019
“A Plea To Progressive Political Pundits: Stop Wringing Your Hands,” The Hill, August 5, 2019
“ForProfit Colleges – But Not Their Student ‘Customers’ – Have A Friend In Betsy DeVos,” The Hill, July 28, 2019
“Lindsey Graham’s Faustian Bargain,” The Hill, July 18, 2019
“What Democrats Should Say About Guns,” The Hill, July 15, 2019 (excerpted in the New York Post July 15, 2019)
“Memo To The Democratic Presidential Candidates: Stop Raising Your Hands,” The Hill, July 7, 2019
“’I Alone Can Fix It,’ Trump Said, But Has He?,” The Hill, June 30, 2019
“How To Make College Accessible To Students From Rural Communities,” The Hill, June 19, 2019
“Democrats Should Initiate A ‘Fire Mitch McConnell’ Campaign,” The Hill, June 12, 2019
“Supreme Court Should Postpone Decision On Trump’s Citizenship Census Question,” The Hill, June 5, 2019
“How Congress Can Take Back Control Over Tariffs,” The Hill, June 2, 2019
“This Time, The Democrats Can Win A Culture War,” The Hill, May 26, 2019
“A RealityBased Game For Trump Watchers: Name That Fallacy,” The Hill, May 16, 2019
“The Democrats Need A Long Game,” The Hill, May 9, 2019 (coauthored with Sidney Tarrow)
“The Student Debt Crisis Isn’t What You Think It Is,” The Hill, May 5, 2019
“Forget the Spin: Five Unrefuted Mueller Report Revelations,” The Hill, April 25, 2019
“Ivy Leaguers With Guns, Then and Now,” The Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2019 (coauthored with Isaac Kramnick)
“Making The Case For RankedChoice Voting,” The Hill, April 17, 2019
“Real Fix For Gerrymandering Has Been Flying Under The Radar,” The Hill, April 8, 2019
“Resurrecting Deliberative Bodies,” The Hill, April 1, 2019
“Trump Passed The ‘Barr Exam’ But Land Mines Remain For Both Parties,” The Hill, March 26, 2019
“When Admission To College Is ‘Guaranteed,’” The Hill, March 17, 2019
“Democrats May Be Headed For A Contested Convention,” The Hill, March 7, 2019
“Brexit And Exit: A Transatlantic Comparison,” The Hill, February 25, 2019 (coauthored with Sidney Tarrow)
“On Unilateral Executive Action, Mitch McConnell Was Right – In 2014,” The Hill, February 17, 2019
“A National Emergency: Trump Trumps Trump”, The Hill, February 11, 2019
“SOTUs Have Become Spectacles (And People Love It), But Are They Really Any Good?,” The Hill, February 6, 2019
“Law That Allows President To Declare National Emergencies Needs To Be Repealed And Replaced,” The Hill, February 4, 2019
“When the State of the Union (Address) is Poisonously Partisan,” The Hill, January 27, 2019
“How White Supremacists Exploit Public Higher Education,” The Wall Street Journal, October 23, 2017 (coauthored with Kent Fuchs)
“Lessons From America’s Top Trials: Ways to Improve Your Practice Today,” Your ABA, November 2016
“Montezuma’s Revenge,” The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 9, 2016
“How to End Hazing in Fraternities and Sororities,” The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 3, 2015
“What Are the Limits To Free Speech in Schools?,” The Conversation US (online) http://theconversation.com/us, October 28, 2015
“Graduate education is a mess. Shouldn’t universities fix it?,” The Conversation US (online) http://theconversation.com/us, September 28, 2015
“All is Not Well in the World of Intercollegiate Football,” The Conversation US (online) http://theconversation.com/us, August 20, 2015
“Inside the Academy, Time to Ask Some Difficult Questions,” The Conversation US (online) http://theconversation.com/us, July 10, 2015
“Will the ‘Right’ College Major Get You a Job?,” The Conversation US (online) http://theconversation.com/us, June 3, 2015 Reprinted in Newsweek.com (online) www.newsweek.com, June 7, 2015
“’Class Ceiling’ in Workplace Suppresses the American Dream,” The Conversation US (online) http://theconversation.com/us, May 6, 2015
“W(h)ither the Liberal Arts?,” The Conversation US (online) http://theconversation.com/us, April 8, 2015
“Midterm Politics: The Back Story Is The Thing,” The Conversation US (online) http://theconversation.com/us, October 22, 2014
“Campus Confrontation, 1958,” Cornell Alumni Magazine, September/October 2014 (coauthored with Isaac Kramnick)
“Email and Higher Ed History,” Inside Higher Ed (online) www.insidehighered.com, July 14, 2014
“Today’s Vets Get Shortchanged on GI Bill,” CNN.com, June 28, 2014
“The Problematic Primacy of Primaries,” The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 12, 2014
“Book ‘Em?,” Inside Higher Ed (online) www.insidehighered.com, March 3, 2014 (coauthored with Mary Fainsod Katzenstein)
“The Gift That Keeps On Giving,” Forbes.com, December 2, 2013 (coauthored with David J. Skorton)
“Rating President Obama’s College Ratings,” Forbes.com, October 28, 2013 (coauthored with David J. Skorton) Reprinted in Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, October 31, 2013
“How College Health Centers Help Students Succeed,” Forbes.com, September 23, 2013 (coauthored with David J. Skorton) Reprinted in Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, December 2, 2013
“Some Advice for Parents of New College Students,” Forbes.com, August 20, 2013 (coauthored with David J. Skorton)
“Open Access to Research: An Ideal Complicated by Reality,” Forbes.com, July 29, 2013 (coauthored with David J. Skorton)
“The Hidden Work Life of University Faculty,” Forbes.com, June 24, 2013 (coauthored with David J. Skorton)
“Rules of Engagement: How Students Can Learn Well and Do Good,” Forbes.com, May 28, 2013 (coauthored with David J. Skorton)
“Back to Basics at the National Science Foundation,” Forbes.com, April 25, 2013 (coauthored with David J. Skorton)
“College Behind Bars: How Educating Prisoners Pays Off,” Forbes.com, March 25, 2013 (coauthored with David J. Skorton)
“Do We Really Need More Guns on Campus?,” Forbes.com, February 21, 2013 (coauthored with David J. Skorton) Reprinted in Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 28, 2013
“MOOCs: A College Education Online?,” Forbes.com, January 28, 2013 (coauthored with David J. Skorton) Reprinted in Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, February 1, 2013
“A Sober Assessment of HighRisk Drinking on College Campuses,” Forbes.com, December 17, 2012 (coauthored with David J. Skorton). Reprinted in Psychology Today (online) www.psychologytoday.com, January 3, 2013
“Compromising History: Lincoln on Capitol Hill.” The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 3, 2013
“An Open Letter to President Obama,” Forbes.com, November 26, 2012 (coauthored with David J. Skorton)
“Does Your Major Matter?,” Forbes.com, October 29, 2012 (coauthored with David J. Skorton)
“US Elections: Do School Vouchers Work?,” The Conversation (online) http://theconversation.edu.au, October 19, 2012
“Fracking: A Role for Universities,” Forbes.com, September 24, 2012 (coauthored with David J. Skorton)
“America’s Foreign Language Deficit,” Forbes.com, August 27, 2012 (coauthored with David J. Skorton)
“Saving Privat(izing) Ryan: Mitt Romney Selects a Running Mate,” The Conversation (online) http://theconversation.edu.au, August 12, 2012
“On Higher Education: Where We Stand,” Forbes.com, August 1, 2012 (coauthored with David J. Skorton)
“Hail and Farewell Dale Corson 19142012,” Cornell Alumni Magazine, May/June 2012 (coauthored with Isaac Kramnick)
“Fun, Fun Rock ‘n’ High School,” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, April 2012
“Super Tuesday StandOff,” The Conversation (online) http://theconversation.edu.au,
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“Why We Need Fulbrights,” Forbes.com, August 3, 2011 (coauthored with David J. Skorton)
“Rupert Murdoch and the State of American Journalism,” The Conversation (online) http://theconversation.edu.au, July 21, 2011
“Remembering Arthur Laurents,” Cornell Alumni Magazine, July/August 2011 (coauthored with Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore)
“I’m Not a Candidate, But I Play One on TV,” The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 11, 2011 (coauthored with Robert J. Spitzer)
“In Life, As in Baseball, It’s Good to Hit All the Bases,” The Syracuse PostStandard, February 20, 2011
“Reset After the Republicans’ Revanche,” The Moscow Times, November 2, 2010
“’The Morrison Case’: Cornell in the Cold War (Part II),” Cornell Alumni Magazine, September/October 2010 (coauthored with Isaac Kramnick)
“NotSoPublic Schools,” Forbes.com, August 11, 2010 (coauthored with David J. Skorton)
“’Red Cornell’: Cornell in the Cold War (Part I),” Cornell Alumni Magazine, July/August 2010 (coauthored with Isaac Kramnick)
“House of Cards,” The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 4, 2010
“Helmets and Head Cases,” The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, January 4, 2010 (coauthored with Patrick M. Burns)
“Senate ‘Resolution’,” The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, December 22, 2009 (coauthored with Robert Spitzer)
“Casting His Spell,” Interview with novelist Richard Russo. The Boston Globe, October 18, 2009
“A Supposedly Fun Thing He’ll Never Do Again,” The Jerusalem Post, September 11, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
“(GI) Joe College,” Forbes (online) http://www.forbes.com, August 5, 2009
“Happy Birthday, GI Bill,” The Daily Kos (online) www.dailykos.com, June 23, 2009 (coauthored with Stuart Blumin)
“A New Deal for Veterans,” Inside Higher Ed (online) www.insidehighered.com, June 22, 2009 (coauthored with Stuart Blumin)
“The Myth of the GI Bill,” History News Network (online) http://hnn.us, June 15, 2009 (coauthored with Stuart Blumin)
“War College,” Cornell Alumni Magazine, May/June 2009 (coauthored with Stuart Blumin)
“Round 2 – The Transformation of the Media and Entertainment Landscape,” The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, April 30, 2009 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
“Goldwin Smith: AntiSemite?,” Cornell Alumni Magazine, March/April 2009 (coauthored with Isaac Kramnick)
“Lawyer Lawyer Hero Hunter,” The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, September 8, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
“It Only Gets Worse From Here,” Forbes (online) http://www.forbes.com, August 13, 2008
“Corrupting Habit,” The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, August 6, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
“The End of Politigation,” The Huffington Post (online) www.huffingtonpost.com, June 12, 2008 (coauthored with Kevin Morris)
“Democrats Can Prevent Catastrophe and Hillary Should Help,” The Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 15, 2008, and, as “Trouble Ahead?,” in The Syracuse Post Standard, February 15, 2008 (coauthored with Robert Spitzer)
“Curtains for the Guilds,” Los Angeles Times (coauthored with Kevin Morris), December 20, 2007
Note on “History’s Ethical Crisis,” Journal of American History, September 2004
“Reminiscence of A. R. Ammons,” Epoch, Spring 2004
“Endorsement Fever,” Syracuse PostStandard, February 18, 2004 (coauthored with Robert Spitzer)
“Overrated & Underrated: Rock ‘n’ Roll Moment,” American Heritage, October 2003.
“The Future of Academic Departments,” Academic Leader, April 2003 (coauthored with Robert Constable).
“The Alumni Interview,” The New York Times (Education Life Section), November 10, 2002.
“September 11 in 1948,” Epoch, Fall 2002 (coauthored with Isaac Kramnick).
“Premeditations,” The New York Times (Education Life Section), August 4, 2002.
“A Tryout for the Real World,” The New York Times (Education Life Section), April 14, 2002.
"Colleges Must Create Technology Plans," The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 18, 2002 (coauthored with Polley McClure).
"Tricks of the Trade," The New York Times (Education Life Section), January 13, 2002.
"Take This Advice, or Don't," The New York Times (Education Life Section), November 11, 2001.
"The ELearning Curve," The New York Times (Education Life Section), August 5, 2001. Reprinted in Purposes and Processes, Prentice Hall, 2002.
"La Dolce Semester," The New York Times (Education Life Section), April 8, 2001. Reprinted in Margaret Lindgren, For English 102, Primis Custom Publishing, December 2001; Sally McFall, editor, Pro/Con 3, Scholastic Library Publishing, March 2004.
“We’re Caught in a Presidential Clap Trap,” Los Angeles Times (Op/Ed Section), March 4, 2001 (coauthored with Eric Rauchway). Reprinted in the International Herald Tribune, March 8, 2001.
“Battling the Cheats,” The New York Times (Education Life Section), January 7, 2001. Reprinted in Peter Lowentrout, editor, The University in Your Future, California State University Press, 2004. (Reprinted as well in the 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 editions.)
“Cultural Literacy Depends on Survey Courses,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 24, 2000 (coauthored with Stuart Blumin).
“Learning How to Learn,” The New York Times (Education Life Section), November 12, 2000. Reprinted in JoAnn Yaworski, Reading Between the Lines, Longman, 2002. Reprinted in Writing, Reading, and Research, Eighth Edition, by Richard Veit and Christopher Gould, 2009. Reprinted in The Writer’s Purposes: A Reader for Composition, First Edition, by Stephen Reid, November 2010. Reprinted in Reading Matters 3, Third Edition, by Mary Lee Wholey and Nadia Henein, 2011.
“The Big Choose,” The New York Times (Education Life Section), April 9, 2000. Reprinted in condensed form in The New York Times Up Front: Magazine for Teens, November 27, 2000.
“Dear Admissions Committee,” The New York Times (Education Life Section), January 9, 2000. Reprinted in condensed form as “Recommendations: A Dean’s List,” in The New York Times Up Front: Magazine for Teens, September 18, 2000.
“Adapting to College Life In an Era of Heightened Stress,” The New York Times (Education Life Section), August 6, 2000. Reprinted in A Brief Guide to Writing from Readings, Fifth Edition, by Stephen Wilhoit, 2009. Reprinted in Writing, Reading, and Research, Eighth Edition, by Richard Veit and Christopher Gould, 2009. Reprinted in Writing, Reading, and Research, Ninth Edition, by Richard Veit, Christopher Gould and Kathleen Gould, 2014.
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“Endowment Payout Rates Are Too Stingy,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 31, 2000.
“The That Changed My Life,” The New York Times (Education Life section), November 7, 1999. Reprinted in condensed form as “How to Write a Killer Essay,” in The New York Times Up Front: Magazine for Teens, December 13, 1999, and (again), September 18, 2000.
“A Better Idea Has Replaced ‘In Loco Parentis’,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 5, 1999 (coauthored with Isaac Kramnick).
“PG17 Suggested, Within Limits,” The New York Times (Education Life section), August 1, 1999.
“The Best Reason to Go to an Academic Convention Is to Have Fun, If You Can,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 4, 1999.
“Let Me Edutain You,” The New York Times (Education Life section), April 4, 1999.
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