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The Decline and Fall of the University

Since retiring from the University, several people have asked if I miss it. I tell them I miss what it was, but not what it has become. Higher education in America has gone…
Intellectual diversity

UNC Tries to Create a “Free-Speech Culture”

<p style="text-align: start; " class="sqsrte-large">Jed Atkins, head of the Chapel Hill campus’s new School of Civic Life and Leadership, wants to teach students to be tolerant, in an old-school way.</p>
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The Snowflake Factory

<p>Jim Bacon: If this emerging paradigm is correct, UVA and other higher-ed institutions are taking a generation of students coddled by parents and K-12 schools to begin with <em>and making things worse.</em></p>
Free expression

Furman Needs to Walk Its Talk on Free Speech

<p>Furman alumnus Evan Myers writes a guest commentary in The Post and Currier, highlighting the need for alumni to hold their administration accountable for protecting and promoting free speech on campus. What can we glean for UVA?</p>

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A Playpen for Social-Justice Activists

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">What does UVA’s Equity Center do? Bacon’s Rebellion founder and TJC contributing editor James Bacon offers his thoughts.</p>

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