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Opinion | I’m a College President and I Hope My Campus Is Even More Political This Year
Michael S. Rothnytimes.com
At a time of ethnic strife, pandemics, and climate crisis, our human capacity to act collectively is more important than ever.
Michael Morris • Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together
This is understandable in the midst of massive and scary globalization among six billion people, but it also keeps us trapped at the bipartisan divide—and we never achieve the transpartisan nature of mature elders.
Richard Rohr • Falling Upward
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
The notion that a university should protect all of its students from ideas that some of them find offensive is a repudiation of the legacy of Socrates, who described himself as the “gadfly” of the Athenian people. He thought it was his job to sting, to disturb, to question, and thereby to provoke his fellow Athenians to think through their current ... See more
Jonathan Haidt • The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
I need no convincing of the value of campus life and in-classroom education. I recognize that online platforms can’t perfectly replace what we deliver on campus. But they can fulfill key pieces of our core mission and reach many more students, of all ages and economic backgrounds, at a far lower cost. What online services lack in quality, they make... See more