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Higher Yearning
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From a journal that Flannery O’Connor (1925–64) kept during her second year at Georgia State College for Women. The journal entries were published in Issue 94 of Image Journal. Regina…

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Political Correction
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By Osita Nwanevu. Nwanevu is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago and the editor of the South Side Weekly.

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Save Our Public Universities
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In defense of America’s best idea

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The Genealogy of Orals
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By Friedrich Nietzsche, from Anti-Education, which will be published in November by New York Review Books. The volume gathers five lectures on “the future of our educational institutions” that the…

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The Neoliberal Arts
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How college sold its soul to the market

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Course Corrections
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To the long list of American institutions that have withered since the dawn of the 1980s—?journalism, organized labor, mainline Protestantism, small-town merchants—?it may be time to add another: college-level humanities.…

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The Price of Admission
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Leveling the Field
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What I learned from for-profit education

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Stumped Speech
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II. As a weapon in the hands of the restless poor
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Earl Shorris was a regular contributor to Harper’s Magazine from 1972 until his death in 2012. In 1995, he founded the Clemente Course for the Humanities, a ten-month-long academic program…

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The American Teacher
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A gift for giving

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