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Higher Education
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First We Grieve
Megan L. Ranney
December 15, 2025
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Stop Trying to Make the Humanities ‘Relevant’
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‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’
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The Myth of the Campus Snowflake
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Illiberal America, MAGA Edition
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So Much for Class-Based Affirmative Action
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Education
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How Teacher Evaluations Broke the University
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Books
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Culture
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