Education

Don’t send your kids to school
Ari Shtein | December 16, 2025
Manu Bosteels ’28 writes that Yale students should prefer to enroll their future children in the public school system, rather than ship them off to an exclusive private institution. His argument proceeds along two lines: first,

In defense of the common good
Arran Rounds | October 31, 2025
Our country is living through a fragile time. The divisions we face cut deep. Seeping into families, neighborhoods and the spaces where we once found common ground. Every tragedy seems to be politicized. Every

Save young men
Joshua Danziger | October 17, 2025
How are young men doing? Terribly. We are unemployed, depressed and sexually inactive. We are struggling in education, job placement and social flourishing. We are the perpetrators of our country’s recent mass shootings and political attacks. After many generations of

Take the Road Less Traveled By
Steve Nelson | October 10, 2025
“I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost, from “The Road Not Taken” A recent front page article in the New York Times re-kindled the never-extinguished

Public service still serves the public.
Guest Contributors | September 19, 2025
This year has been unlike any other for the School for Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and its Scholars in the Nation’s Service (SINSI) program. For almost 20 years, SINSI has guided Princeton students

Insights for Navigating Adolescent Friendships
Elaine Griffin | September 12, 2025
As a middle school head, I frequently hear from parents who are worried about their children’s friendships—and for good reason. Social dynamics become more complex during adolescence, and parents want to support their kids

Keep academic authority in human hands
Lily Halbert-Alexander | August 23, 2025
In an otherwise insightful, hopeful, and at times even beautiful, piece in the New Yorker in April, Princeton Professor of History D. Graham Burnett makes one critical error: Compared to the rise of AI, he remarks,

Liberation from the Craze of Algorithms
Amelia Zhang | August 15, 2025
When’s the last time you looked at a plant? I mean you felt the ridges and veins of its leaves, rubbed the scented wax on your fingers, felt how its body shaped the wind….

The Troubles of Boys
Steve Nelson | August 1, 2025
Millions of words have been thrown at the vexing question; what’s wrong with boys and men? Boys are comparably less successful than girls in schools. They are statistically disadvantaged in college admissions and are




