In SAPIR’s new issue on The University, professors, students, changemakers, and other campus leaders ask how to restore the ideals and values of the modern university for the good of the entire campus community. Read it now!

In the latest SAPIR Conversation, former assistant to the secretary of defense Dana W. White joined Bret Stephens for a conversation about her recent article, “Why HBCUs Are Key to Fighting Antisemitism.”

Last week, Vanderbilt professor Shaul Kelner joined SAPIR Associate Editor Felicia Herman for a conversation on why critical theory isn’t honestly applied to the study of Zionism and the Jews. Stream the latest SAPIR Conversation now.

Last month, @JonHaidt and @dsallentess joined @RabbiWolpe and @ChananWeissman for a special live conversation on why trust has diminished in institutions of higher education and what could be done to restore their values and faith in them. Listen now.

In a recent SAPIR Conversation, @AriBermanYU and former Brandeis President Ron Liebowitz discussed the purpose of the modern university and the role for Jews and Jewish ideas on campus.

RT @AnshelPfeffer: I visited Adass Shul in Melbourne last year with ⁦@ittay78⁩ doing research for this piece. The sheer irony of them attac…

RT @JonHaidt: An excellent essay on what made American universities great, after they drew on Humboldt's vision, and how they lost that vis…

Saul Bellow’s prizewinning novel “Mr. Sammler’s Planet” has been controversial since 1970. Adam Bellow considers what his father aimed at in Artur Sammler’s jeremiad against Columbia radicals, New York’s decline, and most everything else he set eyes on.

The covenantal model that originated at Sinai continues to propel his institution, writes @AriBermanYU. Other universities have much to learn from the enduring vitality of its spirit.

A potent anti-Zionist and antisemitic movement has found strong footing at many historically black colleges and universities, writes Dana W. White. She looks to her own family history, beginning at the turn of the last century, for a different way.

Sarah Lawrence professor Samuel J. Abrams writes that campus anti-Israel activists are leading something more than a social movement: a new religion. He points to the spiritual crisis that gave rise to this radical new faith, and asks how to reform it.

Jews have flocked to universities since their doors were opened to them. That's changed lately. @Charles_Lipson writes that the radical campus groups that rode in on the coattails of liberalization have made universities illiberal.

RT @sapinker: Encouraging Debate, Not Settling It –An interview with Vanderbilt U Chancellor Daniel Diermeier, a university senior leader w…

Two business-school professors at the University of Maryland, Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, have witnessed their university stray from the spirit of inquiry in favor of shallow thinking. Their new campus venture aims to reshape campus discourse.

Caroline Mehl of @CDI_America joined SAPIR for an interview after a year of campus-speech upheaval. Associate Publisher Ariella Saperstein asked her about free speech and anti-discrimination policies; university statements; Jews and DEI; and more.

Critical theory is the foremost method of inquiry in many quarters of American higher education, especially in the humanities and social sciences. Except when it comes to the Jews, writes Vanderbilt’s Shaul Kelner.

At its best, science is the systematized pursuit of knowledge, and should drive many areas of public policy. At its worst, it is the opposite: the handmaiden of public policy. @RogerPielkeJr asks why we see too much of the latter today.

RT @Evolutionistrue: A nice essay by Bret Stephens in the new journal Sapir; it's about the decline of American universities' liberalism as…

Efforts to boycott Israeli academics have been a startling success in Europe, and they’ve made their way to the United States. How to respond? Hebrew University professor Netta Barak-Corren charts the legal and legislative pathways.

Counting the ways in which the Association of American University Professors' recent about-face on academic boycotts uproots more than a century of precedent, Professors Ronald R. Krebs and Cary Nelson see it as part of a broad assault on academic freedom.

“It is precisely in BDS’s intellectual shamelessness,” write former Brandeis president Ron Liebowitz and research scientist Jessica Liebowitz, “that we see reason for optimism and a path forward.”