Rebecca Schuman
Sports
Why Isn’t All Gymnastics This Fun?Katelyn Ohashi’s viral floor exercise routine could only exist at the NCAA level, and only at UCLA.
Sports
Simone Biles Fell! Twice! And Still Won! By a Lot!At the Gymnastics World Championships, the gymnastics legend showed she’s (kind of) human.
Books
Hands on FranzIn Kafka’s Last Trial, Benjamin Balint charts the court battle over manuscripts that were never supposed to exist.
Books
Finding the Laughs in the Decline of the HumanitiesA conversation with Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement.
Family
Volk HeroesThis fun new book about how Germans raise their kids will break American parents’ hearts.
Sports
How Larry Nassar Got Away With ItThe team doctor preyed on young gymnasts who’d been taught their bodies were not their own.
Education
“Demoralizing but Informative”For job-seeking academics, December is the least wonderful time of the year. The academic wikis are why.
Education
College Students Want to Kill Foreign Language RequirementsUniversities should tell them nein.
Brow Beat
Trader Joe’s German Brother Aldi Is Getting Some Stiff Competition on the U.S. Supermarket Scene
Culturebox
Why Americans Are So Bloody Awful at British AccentsIf British actors’ American accents are “bang on,” why are Americans’ British accents such rubbish?
Downtime
There Is No One to Cheer for in the Potential Battle Between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj ŽižekLeft-wing trolling, or right-wing trolling?
Sports
You Get a 10! You Get a 10! You Get a 10!College gymnastics is spectacular. The sport’s scoring system is abjectly bonkers.
Sports
The Strength of Simone BilesThe gold medalist’s #MeToo statement calling out USA Gymnastics could be her greatest legacy.
Education
Stop Problematizing Academic JargonIt’s easy to mock specialized vocabulary. In these anti-intellectual times, we need it more than ever.
Education
Student Journalists Are Under ThreatUniversities are increasingly cracking down on their speech. That’s bad news for them and very bad news for democracy.
Education
Oh Good, a “Professor Watch List”The timing of a new website meant to identify liberal academics is grotesque.
Culturebox
Just in Time for Our Impending Nuclear Holocaust … It’s Nena!The “99 Luftballons” singer on Trump, playing the U.S. for the first time, and the Americans who butcher her song at karaoke.