Milan and Mike assess the shambolic UVA presidential search and Plato's standing in Aggieland. 

In a dark year for higher education, Milan and Mike end on an optimistic note by drawing on students' idealism and faculty solidarity. 

Milan and Mike analyze the changing role of university presidents and events at Northwestern and Texas Tech.  

Milan and Mike take on the NY Times' slanted and increasingly anti-intellectual coverage of higher education, with a particular focus on David Brooks and Jeremy W. Peters.

Milan and Mike cheer universities' rejections of the higher education compact and compare UVA's settlement to Columbia's. 

Milan and Mike analyze the Trump administration's proposed compact with nine universities and the influence of private equity moguls. 

Milan and Mike lament recent political attacks on professors' speech and the influence of Twitter / X. 

Milan and Mike assess the state of academic hiring and defend it from claims of liberal bias. 

Milan and Mike survey the carnage from Columbia's capitulation and speculate on the next domino to fall. 

The new federal budget - dubbed the one big beautiful bill - is now law. Milan and Mike analyze its implications for higher education and scientific research.