Two state leaders for free speech on college campuses commended the University of Oklahoma for its handling of the ongoing ...

For some at OU, the essay debate draws into question the value of an OU degree and the broader impacts to academic freedom.

The decision comes as the essay continues to ignite a nationwide debate over academic freedom and free speech.

OU announced it is processing the appeal of a student who alleges religious discrimination after she received zero points on ...

War on Science takes aim at science’s global culture wars. Edited by controversial physicist Lawrence Krauss, it argues ...

Division on whether an OU student should have received a zero on her essay, but most agreed that her free speech rights had ...

At the beginning of an essay from this new collection – her third (or perhaps fourth, if you count the boutique volume of pandemic pieces, Intimations, from 2020) – Zadie Smith writes: “I’ve always ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. In Dead and Alive, her prose, which once animated fictional ...

HISTORY MATTERS. By David McCullough. Edited By Dorie McCullough Lawson and Michael Hill. Simon and Schuster. 176 pages. $27. Popular historian David McCullough, who died in 2022, was a master of the ...

I used to believe I taught the one genre that artificial intelligence couldn’t touch. For 15 years, I’ve guided college students through the deeply human work of personal narrative, helping them ...

Novelist and critic Smith (Feel Free) brings an incisive eye and keen wit to art, music, fiction, politics, and more in these wide-ranging essays. Whether analyzing the misogyny faced by female muses; ...