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View More NewsAmerica is celebrating its 250th birthday and hosting the world’s biggest sporting event this year. But these days, we are welcoming fewer guests to the party. Foreign tourism to the United States has slumped since President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025. The administration’s eagerness to raise barriers to people entering the country—even when they just want to come here temporarily to spend some money and then go home—is one likely reason why. That, in turn, is contributing to growing anti-American sentiment among travelers who might have otherwise vacationed in the United States. That latter issue seems to be…
Editor’s note: the text that follows has been adapted, with permission of the authors, from “State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences,” a report submitted on 5 April, 2026 to Daniel Diermeier, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, and Andrew D. Martin, Chancellor of Washington University; and addressed to all “university chancellors and presidents who are concerned about the state of academic scholarship in the humanities.” The full list of authors appears in the credit information below.The idea that there is something amiss in the humanities and the social sciences, and that the problem has something to do…
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Four years ago, a colleague asked me whether I could chair a debate with some guy called ‘Gary Stevenson’, who was, apparently, an anti-inequality campaigner and a YouTube commentator of some description. I had never heard of Stevenson, but accepted. The debate went all right, even though it was mostly a case of talking past each other (which, given that I was the moderator, was probably my fault). It was otherwise not especially memorable. Britain does not exactly have a shortage of left-wing media figures and activists. In the first half of the 2010s, there was the campaign for a…
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