Ben Givan News Today

Universities have been pumping out too many PhDs in the humanities because it gives them prestige and they typically save money by employing their graduate students to do teaching and grading for relatively low pay.

Readers express gratitude for the risk he took in leaking the Pentagon Papers. Also: Maternal health; the 2024 election; reasons for hope; diversity in orchestras.

Readers criticize a column by Bret Stephens asserting that mask mandates were ineffective. Also: Children and loss; John Fetterman; population growth.