Miami graduate student receives Fulbright grant offer, two alternates named
Three undergraduate students receive Gilman Scholarships for study abroad
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Raymond Aron (1948): "The commentator who is not attached to a party performs a kind of public service...The ideal commentator, especially in economic matters, is an enlightened and skeptical scholar, not a prisoner of his own theories, who retains the taste for the singular, consent to pragmatism and the smile of common sense."
Why did the American colonists insist on taking up arms against the British?
. @FlaggTaylor4 addresses this question in his essay for The Civitas Collection 250. Read it here: https://t.co/LSE8HBB3lg
I have a new piece out today in Persuasion, a tour of the why, what, and how of liberal education. I call for the wholesale reconstruction of the undergraduate curriculum and a fundamental shift in the professoriate's conception of its purpose.
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Forthcoming: “The Princeton History of
American Political Thought” Edited by Susan McWilliams Barndt, Nicholas Buccola & Roosevelt Montás: https://t.co/sSf4T1XHP4
The American Revolution was driven neither by ideology nor passion.
Read @FlaggTaylor4's essay for The Civitas Collection 250 here: https://t.co/ajXaLIXsYy
.@MiamiOHSwimDive stole the show at tonight's men's basketball game.
Were they effective? Well, Central Michigan shot 57% from the FT line in the second half...😂
@MiamiOH_BBall | @WDTN
reminds me of this quote by St. Augustine
“People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
Special Collections of King Library at @MiamiOHNews acquired this 1864 printing of the Emancipation Proclamation in honor of the founding of the Center for Civics, Culture, and Society. Many thanks to Dean Jerome Conley, Rachel Makarowski, and Alia Wegner.