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An unorthodox journal studying the virtues & vices of the American higher education establishment.

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November 20, 2025

Issue at a Glance

Seth Forman

Preview articles in this issue with pieces by Gary Saul Morson, Edward S. Shapiro, Yuriy V. Karpov, and more.

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November 20, 2025

Reading, in Whole or in Part

Peter W. Wood

Editor's introduction to this issue.

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November 20, 2025

Package Beliefs and Partyness

Gary Saul Morson

Literary critic Gary Saul Morson sees in the intellectual conformity of today eerie parallels with Soviet-era thought control. Using Russian literature—from Tolstoy and Dostoevsky to Mandelstam......

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Homogenous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty

A study on the partisanship of liberal arts professors at America's top universities. ...

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The Case for Colonialism

From the summer issue of Academic Questions, we reprint the controversial article, "The Case for Colonialism." ...

March 18, 2022

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The Case for Colonialism: A Response to My Critics

Political scientist and NAS board member Bruce Gilley’s article “The Case for Colonialism” (republished in Academic Questions in the summer of 2018), has been the subject o......