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Michael Ignatieff Lecture

On Thursday, April 19, Michael Ignatieff spoke on 'Reimagining a Global Ethic.' This event, cosponsored with the Social Trends Institute and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, was part of an experts meeting on Globalization and the Common Good. The video will be available here soon.

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The Hedgehog Review

The Hedgehog ReviewCurrent Issue

The Corporate Professor

In 2000 we asked, “What’s the University for?” The question is even more pressing now than it was a decade ago. In this issue, we explore the following conundrum: if anyone should be able to articulate the purposes of higher education, it should be professors themselves, and yet they seem to be just as caught up in the system as anyone else.

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Featured Online Article

From vol. 14, no. 1 (Spring 2012)

Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

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Ethan Schrum

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Ethan Schrum

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ethan Schrum studies the intellectual, cultural, and political history of the United States and its role in the world from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, with a primary research focus on the role of universities and academic knowledge...

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The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture is an interdisciplinary research center and intellectual community at the University of Virginia committed to understanding contemporary cultural change and its individual and social consequences, training young scholars, and providing intellectual leadership in service to the public good.

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