Who Needs Captains of Erudition?

Posted on November 13, 2014 in Infernal Machine
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With our backs to the wall and overcome by the sense that our university was imperiled, we faculty members made arguments that were not in the first instance financial, technological, or political. We made normative claims about what a university ought to be.
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Catholic Responses to Poverty

Posted on November 13, 2014 in THR Web Features
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Shuttling between economics and political philosophy, public policy and theology, literature and ethics—the conference paraded the unique strength of the intellectual Catholicism today—no discipline out of bounds, no perspective non grata.
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The Millennials Are Coming, But Who Cares?

Posted on November 12, 2014 in Common Place
With 80 million—the largest generation ever—leaving home and descending into society, scholars, think tanks, and especially corporations are intent on understanding the inner life of a twenty something. Despite the attention that millennials are garnering, important questions surrounding community engagement are being let out.
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