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Author: Unknown Author - Publish Date: December 5, 2021 at 11:30PM Responses to a John McWhorter essay about criteria used for hiring a physics professor. Also: Domestic violence; political donors; premature births.

Author: BY COLIN MOYNIHAN - Publish Date: November 28, 2021 at 11:46PM Quinnipiac University, which had opened Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum in 2012, said that it could no longer afford to operate it.

Author: BY CLAY RISEN - Publish Date: November 25, 2021 at 02:34AM He began playing professionally as a child, worked with some of jazz’s biggest names in the late 1950s, and remained a leading figure in the music for the next 60 years.

Author: BY JOHN MCWHORTER - Publish Date: November 20, 2021 at 03:25AM Today’s sociopolitical newspeak has an aroma of self-delusion.

Author: BY JANE ARRAF - Publish Date: November 15, 2021 at 12:05AM Regarded as infidels by the Taliban, over 100 students from the American University in Kabul have found an unlikely refuge in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya.

Author: Unknown Author - Publish Date: November 13, 2021 at 01:57AM Readers discuss Maureen Dowd’s criticisms of President Biden and the Democrats. Also: A new university; investing in people; unvaccinated home aides.

Author: BY MICHAEL WINES - Publish Date: November 6, 2021 at 12:38AM Facing a storm of protest, the university said three professors could testify as expert witnesses in a voting-rights lawsuit against the state.

Author: BY MARIA CRAMER - Publish Date: October 30, 2021 at 11:27PM Charles Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner, said the windowless rooms of an 11-story tower he conceived for the University of California, Santa Barbara, were “cheerful.”

Author: BY NADA RASHWAN - Publish Date: October 21, 2021 at 01:54AM Officials expect major deliveries of doses by the end of the month to speed up the country’s vaccination efforts.

Author: BY JACEY FORTIN - Publish Date: October 21, 2021 at 12:47AM The highly selective college in Massachusetts will be among the first elite schools in the country to abandon the practice, which has been a persistent barrier to increasing student diversity.

Author: BY MICHAEL POWELL - Publish Date: October 21, 2021 at 12:02AM Dorian Abbot is a scientist who has opposed aspects of affirmative action. He is now at the center of an argument over free speech and acceptable discourse.

Author: BY CLAY RISEN - Publish Date: October 14, 2021 at 12:03AM Working in the 1970s and ’80s, his scholarship helped to cement African-American studies as an academic discipline.

Author: BY SOPHIE KASAKOVE - Publish Date: October 10, 2021 at 02:26AM Dozens of parents and others have pleaded guilty. Here’s what happened to a few of them.

Author: Unknown Author - Publish Date: October 6, 2021 at 11:34PM A battle over academic freedom at Yale. Also: Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona; hazing and assault on campus; bike chaos in New York; Messi's goal.

Author: BY AMELIA NIERENBERG - Publish Date: September 30, 2021 at 12:13AM Fewer works mean fewer hot meals for students.

Author: BY DRAKE POOLEY - Publish Date: September 18, 2021 at 02:17AM We're failing to use one of our best tools for reducing racial economic inequities.

Author: BY ALAN BLINDER - Publish Date: September 5, 2021 at 02:55AM The coach and his staff and players have all been vaccinated. He said he has had only mild symptoms.

Author: BY ELSA DIXLER - Publish Date: September 2, 2021 at 01:40AM He wrote what many believe to be the best single-volume history of the Revolutionary War and another work seeing the war through the eyes of George Washington.

Author: BY SAM ROBERTS - Publish Date: August 22, 2021 at 01:44AM As a self-described “working-class intellectual,” he declared that direct action was more potent than collective bargaining or conventional politics.

Author: BY KATHARINE Q. SEELYE - Publish Date: August 22, 2021 at 12:14AM She gave them a sense of identity and culture and helped legitimize American Sign Language, which she considered her native language.