Author: Noah Swank
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Introduction to SOURCE SOURCE (Searchable Open University Records of Charitable Expenditures) is an interactive tool in a dataset of nearly 1 million grants from over 50,000 U.S. private foundations to colleges and universities, predominantly American. Each row is a single grant: the funder, the recipient, the year, the dollar amount, the foundation’s own free-text description
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Curricular Reform at Elite Universities
Categories: Liberal EducationBy Solveig Lucia Gold and Joshua T. KatzJune 2, 2026 This essay was originally published as a chapter titled “Can We Reform Our Elite Universities?” in Kevin D. Roberts, ed., Higher Education in America: It’s Worse than You Think (New York: Encounter Books, 2026), pp. 181–192, with notes on 273–276. Reprinted with permission. The first
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Finally, Conservatives are Being Invited to Speak at Graduation
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Henry Adams, Democracy, and the Morality of Politics
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Yale Committee Offers an Encouragingly Realistic Report About the State of Higher Education
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Symposium: What is Patriotic Education?
Categories: Civic ThoughtThe EditorsMay 6, 2026 One of President Trump’s first executive orders instructed agencies to “prioritize Federal resources, consistent with applicable law, to promote patriotic education.” This executive order, and the announcements that followed it, sparked a debate about the term “patriotic education” in higher education. Can professors educate patriotically? Or are the two terms mutually
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Beyond Political Thought:
Categories: UncategorizedCulturing a Love of Place and People By Aaron ZubiaMay 6, 2026 This essay is part of a symposium answering the question: “What is patriotic education?” Liberal education points students toward the love of truth. Patriotic education points students toward the love of country. We may love several aspects of both the truth and our country. We
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Educating Guardians of Liberty
Categories: UncategorizedBy Justin DyerMay 6, 2026 This essay is part of a symposium answering the question: “What is patriotic education?” Why should we be patriotic? What reason do we have to love our country? The first and primary reason to love one’s country is because it is one’s own. The love we have for our country
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Between the 1619 Project and the 1776 Commission:
Categories: UncategorizedFinding a Middle Ground For a Higher Civics By Paul CarreseMay 6, 2026 This essay is part of a symposium answering the question: “What is patriotic education?” Can professors find a middle ground between negativity about all things American, and a narrow patriotism that ill suits our national spirit, with its hallmarks of discussion and
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Savoring the Declaration
Categories: Liberal Education