Explores national debate topic issues for 2017-2018 in the areas of education technology, equity and the achievement gap, and the modernization of education.

Mark Edmundson's essays reclaim college not as the province of high-priced tuition, career training, and interactive online courses, but as the place where serious people go to broaden their minds and learn to live the rest of their lives. He argues that the liberal arts are more important today than ever and that higher learning is not some staid old notion but a necessary remedy for our troubled times.

1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in...