Jay Caspian Kang

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.

For a parent, finding a children's activity that hasn't been digitized, optimized, or turned into gambling feels like a balm.

A decade ago, the fandom around Major League Soccer and the U.S. men's national team was very white and very imitative. That's starting to change.

The World Cup doubles as a beauty pageant for each country’s fans, who strut around, sing their anthems, and try their best to look hot, happy, and, above all, passionate. Regional—and, if we’re being honest, racial—categories play into how these contestants are judged: the Brits

The World Cup replay system has fostered a very contemporary kind of paranoia about who controls the machines.