Intro

Today on The Remnant, university-reform eggheads Ben and Jenna Storey join Neanderthal-in-remediation Jonah Goldberg to talk about civic education and recent efforts to rejuvenate American higher ed. Jonah and the Storeys cover university governance, the relationship between civics and the liberal arts, the significance of postliberalism, and the reasons for thinking seriously.

Show Notes:
—Center for the Future of the American University
—Ben and Jenna Storey’s book - Why We Are Restless
—Robert Michels - Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchial Tendencies of Modern Democracy
—AAUP’s 1915 Declaration of Principles
—Why Liberalism Failed
—Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future
—Remnant episode with Will Inboden on higher ed reform

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