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

Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

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Ty Landrum

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Ty Landrum

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Ty completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Virginia in 2011. His research focuses on human worth, individuality, love, and virtue. He is especially concerned to integrate the kind of unique personal worth that is celebrated in love and...

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