Jay Caspian Kang

The network's experiment in style was embarrassing, but it may tell us more about the state of podcasting than it does about legacy media.

The American people, alienated and addicted to their phones, are currently incapable of organizing themselves toward significant political action, Jay Caspian Kang writes.

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A few weeks ago, while I was dealing with taxes, it occurred to me that the money my wife and I were putting away in a college fund for our children might be better used somewhere else.

Universities have become generic, one professor and former dean argues. In the A.I. era, students may demand something they can't get elsewhere.

As the number of new high-school graduates drops, colleges will close, some will merge, and others may change beyond recognition.

“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?”

In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about the ways that A.I. has changed their

In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about the ways that A.I. has changed their classrooms. Most felt despair over the breakdown of a contract between student and teacher, one predicated on the faith that, even if students weren’t always perfect, they would at least challenge themselves to think every once in a while. If students rely on A.I. summaries to do their “reading” for them, if they don’t attempt to put their ideas into prose, are they really learning anything?

The next decade is unlikely to collapse the university system. But it will bring a lot of change to higher education.