The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg Learning to Govern Ourselves | Interview: Ben and Jenna Storey
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Feb 2, 2026 Jenna Storey, AEI scholar focused on civic education and liberal arts revitalization. Ben Storey, AEI scholar working on liberal education and civic reform. They explore university governance, reviving civics within the liberal arts, local school startups and associational life, and debates over postliberalism, subsidiarity, and why teaching 'how to think' and civic purpose matters.
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How Faculty Power Warps University Governance
- Universities allow faculty to hire and evaluate their peers, which concentrates power internally over time.
- Ben Storey argues these 1915-era protections created governance vulnerabilities that enable bureaucratic dysfunction.
Make Civic Education Scholarly And Universal
- Rebuild civic education as serious scholarship and make it pedagogically available to all students in universities.
- Jenna Storey recommends rooting civics in deep research while ensuring broad curricular access.
Citizens Need Disciplined Generalists
- Citizenship requires disciplined generalist judgment across many domains, not narrow technical expertise.
- Ben Storey calls that intellectual muscle the core aim of civic education and liberal arts alike.
