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June 22, 2017

Toward an American Liberal Education

John Agresto

In the Summer 2017 Academic Questions (vol. 30, no. 2), John Agresto argues the usefulness and value of a liberal education in twenty-first century America.

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June 21, 2017

Five Telling Campus Outbreaks of the 2016-17 Academic Year

National Association of Scholars

Peter Wood comments on troubling stories from American higher education this past academic year.

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June 21, 2017

How College Bureaucrats Tyrannize a Professor Who Crosses Them

National Association of Scholars

Peter Wood provides an update on an intellectual freedom case at Springfield College.

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June 19, 2017

Why Did They Riot? Berkeley’s Bellicose Culture

Glynn Custred

The entirety of a six-part essay, Why Did They Riot? Berkeley’s Bellicose Culture, by anthropologist Glynn Custred, on the anti-free-speech movement at UC Berkeley

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June 16, 2017

American Higher Education

Glynn Custred

The sixth of a six-part essay, Why Did They Riot? Berkeley’s Bellicose Culture, by anthropologist Glynn Custred, on the anti-free-speech movement at UC Berkeley.

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