Authors and editors in the humanities know that journals are more likely to accept scholarly essays with strong introductions and that such essays are more likely to influence academic conversations.

Essays look more like extended blog posts than journal articles: they're short (typically about the length of this column), personal, and political. "We're constantly telling writers, no, really, say ...

Some years ago, I spent a morning being interviewed for tenure-track jobs in English and that afternoon as the grad student member of an interview committee. Never have I experienced such cognitive ...

The Wall Street Journal made the unusual decision to let Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. pre-empt ProPublica’s article about him in its opinion pages. By Katie Robertson The Wall Street Journal faced ...