Now some authors tell me they’ve embraced AI as a “writing tool,” no different from spell-check or a laptop. The phrase is ...

Increasingly, many people I talk to — from students to teachers to peers — tell me that they think it’s OK to use A.I.

Best AI for writing in 2026 compared, including ChatGPT, Claude, Jasper, Frase, Grammarly, and other top AI tools.

Perfect is no longer good enough ...

In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about the ways that ...

Olivia Drewniak's senior essay won her a national scholarship ...

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since ...

Researchers have used top Generative AI models to grade hundreds of undergraduate essays and found that AI only matched human-awarded degree classification around half the time, with AI often failing ...

Writers are fed a bevy of mantras—“show don’t tell,” “kill your darlings”—which provide the security that there are rules, but little else. A new book by Lucy Ives offers a more expansive view of ...

IAS officer Divya Mittal has sparked a conversation online after sharing a deeply personal note on what she believes is missing from school education. In a post on her official X account, Mittal ...

Unruly Republic: Speaking at the University of Texas law school on April 17, 2026, Justice Thomas lamented incivility and Wilsonian progressivism—extremes that columnist Barton Swaim argues have been ...