The Department of Education is back with a seemingly kinder version of its higher education compact. Is this the rare sequel that is better than the original? 

Milan and Mike analyze the Trump administration's changes to the student visa program and question the timing of Yale's potential settlement. 

Milan and Mike interrogate programs and organizations purportedly devoted to intellectual diversity. 

Milan and Mike connect the Trump administration's inquiry into the Yale School of Medicine to its promotion of mediocre men. 

Bizarre events at Cornell, Columbia, and Michigan cause Milan and Mike to wonder about the cloistered worlds of university presidents. 

Milan and Mike ponder whether recent academic departures are a harbinger for red states. 

Milan and Mike discuss recent dismissals of tenured faculty for political speech and differentiate shoddy scholarship from research misconduct. 

Milan and Mike take a hard line against AI-assisted scholarship while recognizing its growing impact on publishing and the academic enterprise. 

Milan and Mike confront the implications of classroom surveillance in North Carolina and Texas. 

Milan and Mike debate collegiality and its limits in the current moment.