College Should Be Way More Fun

Reported by The Atlantic · 23 May 2026

I’m not talking about keg stands. I’m talking about the joyous mysteries of intellectual life.

One afternoon last fall, a class full of Amherst seniors forgot I was there. In the 19th-century octagonal room where I taught my course on fiction, they were deep in an argument about the tempestuous ending of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw—about whether the ghosts haunting two children in a g…

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