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Michael Ignatieff Lecture

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

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Anna Kim

Associate Fellow

Anna Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in the history of art and architecture at the University of Virginia. She studied intellectual history at the University of Notre Dame and pursued graduate studies in ancient philosophy and ethics at Brown University, where...

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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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