Author: The Future of American University
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On Saving the Humanities
Categories: Civic ThoughtA Response to the 2025 Civic Thought and Practice Conference By Solveig Gold & Joshua Katz, November 10, 2025 “Will Republicans save the humanities?” So asked Jenna and Ben Storey in their widely read article last year about the rise of civics centers at public universities in red and purple states. For us (two classicists), the future…
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Toward a Conservative Social Science
Categories: Viewpoint DiversityBy Jesse Smith, November 10, 2025 While left-leaning ideological imbalance can be found in most sectors of higher education, its consequences are especially pronounced in the social sciences. These fields deal with issues of human nature, social structure, and historical explanation, questions inseparable from matters of political controversy. Partisan skew among social scientists thus introduces…
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What has Civics to Do with Literature?
Categories: Civic ThoughtBy Michael Clune, November 10, 2025 Earlier this year, I joined the Chase Center at The Ohio State University after spending two decades as a professor of English. People ask me: Why would a literary scholar and novelist want to join a civics center? And why would a civics center want the study of literature?…
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Private Universities Can’t Survive Without Public Support
Categories: University GovernanceBy Tao Tan, November 5, 2025 In its first nine months, the Trump administration has thoroughly disrupted the American higher education landscape. It has cancelled federal grant funding, pressured university leaders to resign, and circulated a draft compact that ties preferential access to future funding to institutional policy changes. Critics call the administration’s actions overreach…
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Why Trump’s Compact Has Bipartisan Potential
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An Apology for Philology
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The Examined Life
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Character, Responsibility, and Elite Education
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How to Justify the Study of Literature
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Liberal Education and the Restless Soul
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