Nathan Heller
Staff Writer at The New Yorker
Contributing Editor at Vogue
New Yorker staff writer, Vogue contributing editor, semi-pro eavesdropper, overcaffeinated earth child. Now writing THE PRIVATE ORDER for Penguin Press.
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2 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Nathan Heller
For many people, the most disturbing responses are from the universities. Higher education is a realm in which the United States still sets the global standard. The habits of democracy—free individual inquiry, clear evidence-based thinking, an aversion to bunk—are academic habits, and university research in everything from nanoelectronics to cancer is the foundation of industry and medicine. To many Trumpists, though, the diversity and the authority of the academy stands as a threat.
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1 month ago |
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The movie critic’s informal manifesto reflects both her brilliance and her blind spots during a revolutionary period in Hollywood. View in browser | New Takes on the classics. To celebrate its centenary, The New Yorker has invited contributors to revisit notable works from the archive. You’re on the free list. Subscribe to enjoy unlimited access to a century of reporting, commentary, criticism, and fiction.
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1 month ago |
newyorker.com | Nathan Heller
Style is said to be singular, which makes it difficult to define. It is personal, though its appreciation can be broad, and it is not the same as fashion—many people hold the terms to be opposed. Generally speaking, it rises from confidence in being one thing and not another, and in knowing when to join and when to pull back from the pack. The great promulgator of style, through much of the previous century, was the editor of magazines.
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1 month ago |
newyorker.com | Nathan Heller
Trump’s trade war has officially begun. In today’s newsletter, a breakdown on what the tariffs might mean. But, first, reporting on a year of protest at university campuses—and what will happen now that the President has threatened to cut federal funding for higher education. Plus:• A podcast on the origins of the humdrumBig changes, in the United States, often show up on campuses first.
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1 month ago |
businessandamerica.com | Nathan Heller
Universities have always gone far to court wealthy donors: both Lessin and Ackman were first introduced to Claudine Gay when she was a dean. Just how far became clear through a motion filed in 2024 in a long-running lawsuit against seventeen élite colleges and universities, Harvard not among them. Subsequently released testimony and records indicated that some schools had policies of waving through applicants whose parents were expected to give a lot of money.
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Today's news is an important show of strength from Harvard and its leadership in the face of the Administration.
Today Harvard University became the first university to directly refuse to comply with the Trump Administration's demands. @nathanheller reports on the pressure from Washington threatening America’s oldest school—and the soul of higher education. https://t.co/TP8hHVfyiV
RT @NewYorker: .@nathanheller on Donald Trump’s favoritism grift: the more you give to some people while excoriating others, the more you c…
RT @NewYorker: Powerful institutions are bartering their strength away by playing for Trump’s favoritism, but now is not the time to make s…
