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Higher Ed Must Recommit to Its Enlightenment Roots

June 17, 2025

Universities’ own mistakes helped pave the way for government attacks on academic freedom, Emily Chamlee-Wright writes.

The Presumption of Good Faith in Campus Conversation

August 12, 2019

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