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Chad Wellmon

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The Review
The Crushing Contradictions of the American University
By Chad Wellmon April 22, 2021
Our blind faith in the transformative power of higher ed is slipping. What now?
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The Review
Max Weber Invented the Crisis of the Humanities
By Paul Reitter, Chad Wellmon February 6, 2020
More than 100 years old, his landmark essay is more relevant than ever.
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The Review
How Professors Ceded Their Authority
By Chad Wellmon November 20, 2018
Education and moral purpose have parted ways.
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The Review
The University Must Be Defended
By Adam Daniel, Chad Wellmon August 15, 2018
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.
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The Review
Why the University’s Insatiable Appetite Will Be Its Undoing
By Adam Daniel, Chad Wellmon July 29, 2018
It’s time for higher education to do less.
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The Review
How the Academic Elite Reproduces Itself
By Andrew Piper, Chad Wellmon October 8, 2017
Publishing was invented to cure academe of patronage and patrimony. It’s failed.
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The Chronicle Review
For Moral Clarity, Don’t Look to Universities
By Chad Wellmon August 14, 2017
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.
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The Chronicle Review
In Defense of Specialization
By Chad Wellmon April 6, 2015
It’s crucial to society’s trust in the authority of knowledge.