Jay Caspian Kang

The World Cup replay system has fostered a very contemporary kind of paranoia about who controls the machines.

A decade ago, the fandom around Major League Soccer and the U.S. men’s national team was very white and very imitative. That’s starting to change.

For a parent, finding a children’s activity that hasn’t been digitized, optimized, or turned into gambling feels like a balm.

The next decade won’t be Armageddon. But it will bring a lot of change.

I recently created a simple test, which convinced me that the answer is no.

“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?”

As the number of new high-school graduates drops, colleges will close, some will merge, and others may change beyond recognition.

Universities have become generic, one professor and former dean argues. In the A.I. era, students may demand something they can’t get elsewhere.

Americans already distrust institutions, including academia. More and more people may decide that its stamp of approval isn’t worth the cost.