Of the American holidays, Thanksgiving is by far my favorite. Over my academic career, Thanksgiving provided a much-needed respite in the final weeks of the fall semester before the home stretch ...

In the public imagination, the word “professor” evokes a variety of stereotypes: pedants, ideologues, bookworms and socially inept eggheads, among others. There’s: These portrayals, while exaggerated ...

Over at Balkinization, my colleague Samuel Moyn and Yale student Pranjal Drall have a new post on the birthright citizenship debate. As a brief history of recent scholarly and constitutional arguments ...

Universities across the United States have long grappled with the encroachment of preprofessionalism onto their campuses, as undergraduate students feel growing pressure to immediately map their ...

It was the finals of a prestigious debate contest in one of the reputed schools in the country. Four teams comprising smartly dressed teenagers were seated, and the crowd waited in silence. What ...