Opinion
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Student Protest Is an Essential Part of Education
Anyone who was at Columbia University in the spring of 1968 cannot help but see a reprise of those stormy,…
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Some Concrete Reasons Not to Be Totally Panicked
Gail Collins: Bret, I have a feeling we’re going to be spending a good amount of time talking about the…
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The United States Had Every Right To Force a TikTok Sale
China’s violations of human rights and the basic norms of internet freedom are blatant and obvious. This month, with little…
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Maximizing Profits at the Patients’ Expense
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In High-Energy Shanghai, a New Mood: Malaise
In 1979 my mother pulled out a Band-Aid in a Nanjing hospital. The nurses clustered around it, amazed. “The West…
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PEN America Has Stood By Authors. They Should Stand By PEN.
All strong institutions stand to benefit from internal dissent and external pressures. But too often, recent efforts to reform institutions…
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Justin Trudeau Is No Match for a Polarized World
Political careers often end in failure — a cliché that exists because it too often happens to be true. Justin…
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A Close Examination of the Most Infamous Public Toilet in America
On a recent sunny Sunday, residents of San Francisco’s Noe Valley gathered to celebrate the opening of a toilet. But…
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Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable
When I was in college, I came across “The Sea and Poison,” a 1950s novel by Shusaku Endo. It tells…
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Colleges Have Gone Off the Deep End. There Is a Way Out.
I had my head in a law book when I heard the drums. That was the sound of the first…