Author: chad wellmon
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Permanent Crisis Out March 2021
The catalogue copy and landing page for Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age is up with the University of Chicago Press: The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to…
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Information Overload & the Invention of the Modern Research University
On Sunday, June 10, 2012, Helen Dragas, rector of the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors, announced that President Teresa Sullivan and the board had “mutually agreed” that Sullivan would resign. Citing a “rapidly changing” higher education environment, Dragas insisted…
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The Scholar’s Vocation
In 1908, the first study of Germany’s ‘next generation of academics’ was published, written by the German economist Franz Eulenburg. After 200 pages of line graphs and tables, he concluded that they were neither young nor going anywhere. Although some…
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Christian Humanism Is a Wooden Iron
In the brief respite between total wars, most Christian intellectuals in Europe––from Catholics such as Jacques Maritain and Simon Weil to Protestants such as W. H. Auden and C. S. Lewis––professed an allegiance to humanism, as did an array of confessing and non-confessing…
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