For a long time, I've been wanting to read a good piece explaining the rise of the classical education movement. Finally, I convinced my editor to let me write the piece myself. In this week's print issue:

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Nick is one of the best editors I've ever worked with. He has it all: creative ideas, solid reporting advice, a deft way with copy. He's a great team leader. Truly, I can't imagine a better get for the next newsroom that is lucky enough to have him.

Of the interviews I've given about the Harvard #Plagiarism scandal, this Q&A with The The New Yorker most worried me because it involved questions beyond my pay grade. But Emma Green figured out a way to work with my cautious & occasionally flabby answers.

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Over the past two months, I've wanted to understand pro-Palestine student activism more deeply—what they think, and why. This story is a semi-profile of Students for Justice in Palestine, the face of activism on campus and beyond.

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Recently, Chris Rufo held a fancy book party on Park Ave—a gathering of the conservative intellectuals trying to overhaul America's conversation on race.

“Theme could be ‘counterrevolution at the Mondrian’ :)” as Rufo put it in a text.

My Talk piece:
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He’s been locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free? bostonglobe.com/2023/07/05/mag…

P.S. One of the reasons I thought FAIR was important to write about: it shows how the donor class is thinking about battling orthodoxy / illiberalism / wokeness / whatever you want to call it. Rich people—including Harlan Crow—are giving millions to this.
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Fascinating and juicy. Emma Green takes us inside the rise and fall of an anti-woke nonprofit that Bari Weiss helped to get started. newyorker.com/news/annals-of…

'Graeme Wood takes a tour of Harlan Crow's memorabilia—and ponders the influence of the super-rich:
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