Evan Goldstein commissions and edits articles on all aspects of academic life, including intellectual trends in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. He has written about the business professor Clayton Christensen, the computer scientist David Gelernter, and the historian and critic Tony Judt.
He has a bachelor’s degree from Skidmore College.
Stories by this Author
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The ReviewHigher Ed Has a Credibility Problem
Do academics share one worldview? People tend to think so, and you can’t blame them, says Jonathan Rauch. -
The Review
Higher Ed Has a Silicon Valley Problem
Jill Lepore on how algorithms came to supersede art, and the distorting effects of money in academe. -
The Review
‘Affirmative Action Is Not About Equality. It’s About Covering Ass.’
Glenn Loury on race, surviving public humiliation, and why becoming the first African-American to earn tenure in the Harvard economics department was pure agony. -
The Review
‘The Academy Is Largely Itself Responsible for Its Own Peril’
Jill Lepore on writing the story of America, the rise and fall of the fact, and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined. -
The Review
What Follows the End of History? Identity Politics
Francis Fukuyama on global politics, campus politics, and being a student of Paul de Man and Allan Bloom. -
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The Chronicle Interview
Attack on Central European U. ‘Sets a Dangerous Precedent for Academic Life’
Hungary’s bid to shut down the institution is part of a larger battle that pits the cosmopolitan values of liberal democracy against an ascendant wave of nationalist authoritarianism in Europe and elsewhere. -
The Chronicle Interview
Campus Identity Politics Is Dooming Liberal Causes, a Professor Charges
Rage over racial, gender, and sexual identity has no sense of proportion and creates a damaging spectacle, says Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University. -
Post-Truth President
Donald Trump won the country’s highest office by eschewing facts and openly doubting scholarly expertise. -
