The best Higher Education newsletters

Investigative newsletter by Chris Brunet exposing H-1B visa hiring at universities and questioning the methods and replicability of academic marketing research. Readers get documented reporting on university filings, follow-ups on institutional responses, and detailed critiques of published studies and a stock-picking index claim.

A statistical geneticist's newsletter that critically examines claims about heritability, social mobility and genetic causation using the underlying data. It also covers research on university faculty diversity and the capabilities and limits of AI in academic research.

A podcast-and-essay newsletter from economists Andrey Fradkin and Seth Benzell, with episode write-ups featuring interviews with economists on AI, labor, and policy. Readers get digests of conversations on AI governance, social skills, and pro-worker technology design, with posteriors and game-theory asides.

A Chinese international relations scholar writes about how China's institutions study the world, including the history of Fudan's Center for American Studies, plus essays on Chinese writing and U.S.-China relations. Readers get insider observation and analysis on who funds knowledge about other countries and how much evidence is allowed to change official views.

Free The Inquiry is Heterodox Academy's publication of essays, expert commentary and conversations on open inquiry and free debate in universities. Recent issues cover AI disruption of academic research, political polarization in higher education, and a debate between a philosopher and a biologist on the ethics of editing human embryos.

A Substack publishing political commentary framed around anti-communist and anti-subversion ideas, mixing guest essays, satirical takes on current news and a podcast with other fathers. Readers get partisan opinion on democracy, Islamism, campus controversies and the midterm elections.

A personal, opinionated newsletter about US education politics, covering school boards, state races, and policy, with calls to action like checking voter registration. Recent issues mix campaign endorsements and reactions to news with longer essays such as a piece on the Cornell 7 case and student journalism.