A newsletter by a South African economic historian that combines archival research on the Cape Colony with commentary on economics, universities and AI. Each issue tells a story-driven, data-informed essay about South Africa's past and present.

Covers research and practical experience on reforming grading in higher education, including alternative grading, ungrading, and late-work policies. Readers get firsthand course designs, evidence reviews, and guest posts from instructors.

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.

The Stanford Review is an independent student newspaper covering Stanford University, mixing long-form interviews with academics and investigative reporting on campus groups and their outside ties. Readers get reported stories with primary-source detail, such as an interview with a finance professor and an investigation into a student club's links to an OpenAI engineer.