Chad Wellmon
Chad Wellmon is a professor of German studies and history at the University of Virginia. His latest book, Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age, will be published this summer. You can follow him on Twitter @cwellmon.
Stories by this Author
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The ReviewThe Crushing Contradictions of the American University
Our blind faith in the transformative power of higher ed is slipping. What now? -
The Review
Max Weber Invented the Crisis of the Humanities
More than 100 years old, his landmark essay is more relevant than ever. -
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The Review
The University Must Be Defended
It’s not an innocent victim, nor is it a soulless collaborator in democracy’s demise. But it does need a new vision of what it ought to be. -
The Review
Why the University’s Insatiable Appetite Will Be Its Undoing
It’s time for higher education to do less. -
The Review
How the Academic Elite Reproduces Itself
Publishing was invented to cure academe of patronage and patrimony. It’s failed. -
The Chronicle Review
For Moral Clarity, Don’t Look to Universities
As the hate on display in Charlottesville made clear, scholarly practices and virtues cannot impart comprehensive visions of the good. They are, however, essential in another way. -
The Chronicle Review
In Defense of Specialization
It’s crucial to society’s trust in the authority of knowledge.
