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Our most-read stories of the season. ADVERTISEMENT [The Review Logo]( You can also [read this newsletter on the web](. Or, if you no longer want to receive this newsletter, [unsubscribe](. I took a little time off last week, so in lieu of the usual newsletter column — which will return next week — I’ve gathered The Review’s ten most-read stories of the summer. Below the break, a selection of essential reading from June, July, and August. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE Enjoying the newsletter? [Subscribe today]( for unlimited access to essential news, analysis, and advice. “[Why Are There So Few Conservative Professors?]( by Steven M. Teles “[The Harvard Corporation Tries to Kill Faculty Governance]( by Andrew Manuel Crespo and Kirsten Weld “[J.D. Vance is Coming for Higher Ed]( by Eboo Patel “[Michel Foucault, the Bogeyman of the Culture Wars]( by Caleb Smith “[It’s Time to Stop the Double Talk Around Diversity Hiring]( by Matt Burgess “[The Impossible College Presidency]( by Brian Rosenberg “[AI and the Death of Student Writing]( by Lisa Lieberman “[A Harvard Dean’s Assault on Faculty Speech]( by Keith E. Whittington “[Curricular Trauma]( by Len Gutkin “[Can Small, Struggling Colleges Survive?]( by Robert Kelchen ADVERTISEMENT Upcoming Workshop [The Chronicle's Crash Course in Academic Leadership | August 2024] If you’re curious about becoming an academic administrator, we’re once again offering The Chronicle’s Academic Leadership Crash Course, a four-hour virtual workshop designed for faculty aspiring to administrative roles. Join us in August to gain essential insights, practical tips, and valuable resources that will help you pursue your next professional step. [Learn more and register!]( The Latest THE REVIEW | OPINION [The AAUP’s Incoherent New Boycott Policy]( By Jeffrey Sachs [STORY IMAGE]( The organization fails to see that it’s opened the door to chaos. ADVERTISEMENT [The AAUP’s Incoherent New Boycott Policy]( THE REVIEW | OPINION [The AAUP Is Right. Supporting Boycotts Is Academic Freedom.]( By Joan W. Scott [STORY IMAGE]( Cary Nelson’s recent attack on the organization misses the mark. THE REVIEW | ESSAY [A Historian Crafts a Title IX Case Against Her Abuser]( By Joy Neumeyer [STORY IMAGE]( A survivor’s education. THE REVIEW | OPINION [The AAUP Has Always Defended Academic Freedom. We Still Do.]( By Rana Jaleel and Todd Wolfson [STORY IMAGE]( A new boycott policy doesn’t change that. THE REVIEW | ESSAY [Elite Colleges Are More Diverse Than Ever. They’re Still Unequal.]( By Anthony Abraham Jack [STORY IMAGE]( Living in the university’s blind spots. Recommended - “Take the peacocks on the left side of the garden in the Rolin Madonna. Are they just rare, beautiful birds, or are they also moralizing symbols of pride? Can they be both?” In The New York Review of Books, Marisa Anne Bass [investigates]( Jan van Eyck’s quotidian otherworldliness. - “The march of history had revealed that, whatever longstanding philosophies and theologies may have taught, to treat others as of equal moral concern did require a common ideal of citizenship, rather than the feudal differentiation of men into ranks, orders, corps, and stations.” In American Affairs, Gregory Conti [writes about]( several new studies of liberalism. - “The wild spontaneity of Rowlands’s performances in the pictures she starred in directed by her husband John Cassavetes — Faces (1968), Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Opening Night (1977), Gloria (1980) — is matched by her metronomic oscillations between joy (or something like it: love, pleasure, hope, relief) and suffering — you at times feel you’re witnessing a 20th-century American version of the Stations of the Cross.” For Metrograph, Christian Lortentzen [looks at]( Gena Rowlands’s career — the actress died earlier this month. 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