I started frequenting a trendy poetry cafe in New York my freshman year of college. On the cusp of adulthood, poetry had been a safe haven for me, a place where I could escape when the noise in my ...

The social justice warriors of American campuses would like you to hold your applause. When a Yale student’s angry meltdown at a professor went viral, viewers may have noticed the crowd gathered and ...

The social justice warriors of American campuses would like you to hold your applause. When a Yale student's angry meltdown at a professor went viral, viewers may have noticed the crowd gathered and ...

A university in England has passed a rule replacing clapping with jazz hands at student council meetings and other official student events. Oxford University's Student Union said in an article the ...

It started during spoken word and slam poetry readings. Then it spread to the occasional jazz club and improvisational performance. Now it even occurs during academic discussions. These days, before ...