Len Gutkin

Baltimore, Washington, D.C.

Senior Editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education

Senior Editor @ChronicleReview. Author of *Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present* @uvapress.

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Articles

The Woke Medical School?

1 week ago | chronicle.com | Len Gutkin

In a recent essay in our pages, the physicians Sally Satel and Thomas S. Huddle probe and palpate some “dubious strains of social-justice advocacy infiltrating medicine,” especially medical education. The enumerated ills are many, including intrusive pro-Palestinian activism disrupting hospital activity, doctrinaire pseudo-scientific assertions about the sources of racial health disparities, and institutional accreditation conditioned on “unconscious bias training,” which probably doesn’t work.
Social Research: An International Quarterly

3 weeks ago | muse.jhu.edu | Len Gutkin

The last decade of academic life has been witness to a peculiar species of moralizing whereby fierce political condemnations ("ritual anathematizations") of disciplines by their practitioners and of scholars by one another are deployed to authorize a comprehensive politicization of knowledge work.
Academic freedom in early modern England

3 weeks ago | chronicle.com | Len Gutkin

The most immediate wellspring for the institution of academic freedom, as it is understood in the United States, is in 19th-century Germany. But there are other, more remote sources as well.
Berkeley profs say the college discriminates

1 month ago | chronicle.com | Len Gutkin

A private University of California at Berkeley faculty survey (labeled “UC-FEYES: UC FACULTY EYES ONLY”) called the “Bearometer” finds that over half of respondents believe that “criticisms of higher education are valid.” One recurrent complaint: Faculty members worry that the university is not complying with antidiscrimination law when it comes to admissions and hiring.
Viewpoint diversity and the bureaucratized scholar

1 month ago | chronicle.com | Len Gutkin

Viewpoint diversity, for some years now a topic of interest to reform-minded scholarly groups like Heterodox Academy, is back in the news in a big way. That’s because its cultivation in colleges is one of the second Trump administration’s major demands. What does the government think it means?
The Arab Exception to DEI Hiring

1 month ago | chronicle.com | Len Gutkin

In an essay published in our pages last week, the literary critic Michael W. Clune perceives something surprising in a moment as unstable and hyper-polarized as ours: an emerging consensus on the part of both liberals and conservatives that big swaths of academic policy and culture had been degraded by activist politics and were in need of reform.
Harvard’s lawsuit against Trump, explained by law professors

1 month ago | chronicle.com | Len Gutkin

Last week, my colleague Evan Goldstein and I talked with three legal experts — Michael C. Dorf, of Cornell Law; Cristina M. Rodríguez, of Yale Law; and Ilya Shapiro, of the Manhattan Institute — about how Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration is likely to play out. The showdown between President Trump and Harvard involves a very wide range of legal issues: immigration law, tax law, and antidiscrimination law, to name a few.
Can Trump Do That? Legal Scholars Take Stock of His Agenda.

1 month ago | chroni.cl | Evan Goldstein |Len Gutkin

Can he do that? That’s the question observers of higher education have been asking, over and over again, about President Donald J. Trump’s actions toward the sector during his second term. Enormous quantities of money withheld without process. Student visas revoked, sometimes en masse. Green-card holders detained and targeted for deportation, apparently for nothing more than speech.
What ICE’s Latest Detention of an Academic Means for American Higher Ed

2 months ago | chronicle.com | Len Gutkin

Last month, an Indian national and Georgetown postdoc named Badar Khan Suri was apprehended by immigration officials outside of his Virginia home and taken to a detention facility in Texas, where he remains.
A Columbia Green-Card Holder is Arrested, Again.

2 months ago | chronicle.com | Len Gutkin

The best movie I’ve seen this year is Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig, a political drama about the state repression of the thousands of Iranians who took to the streets of Tehran and elsewhere in protest of the death of Mahsa Amini, murdered by religious police for not wearing a hijab.