1+ hour, 57+ min ago  (19+ words) persuasion. community This Week at Persuasion Starting shortly'Intellectual Bootcamp. Also, London pub meet TONIGHT!...

19+ hour, 37+ min ago  (599+ words) This essay is based on a commencement address given at Denison University on May 16, 2026. Let's travel through time. In Mike Nichols' film The Graduate, the main character, Ben, is cornered by middle-aged men in suits at cocktail parties and told…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (593+ words) Today, it was my pleasure to speak at William & Mary's 2026 Commencement ceremony. The namesakes of this college played an underappreciated role in the birth of liberalism, so I'm delighted to share my remarks and their story with you now. Chancellor…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (54+ words) persuasion. community Intellectual Bootcamp This Friday! Reading Gilles Deleuze's article "Postscript on the Societies of Control." Thank you to everyone who joined our inaugural Intellectual Bootcamp the other week. The turnout and quality of discussion were fantastic! The next Bootcamp…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago  (174+ words) We're delighted to feature this article as part of our series on Liberal Virtues and Values. But citizenship, too, is a concept in long-term decline (along with republic, for that matter). On campus, as a goal of education, it has…...

4+ week, 6+ hour ago  (76+ words) persuasion. community Reminder: Intellectual Bootcamp At Noon Eastern! Reading Jonathan Haidt's "Why the Past Ten Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid." Persuasion's first "Intellectual Bootcamp" will meet in a few hours, at 12pm EST. Here is the link to…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (510+ words) Syracuse University shuts down 93 of its academic programs, including Classics and Classical Civilization. It's hard to fault the university itself for the move'no students were majoring in 55 of the shuttered programs. Innovative Hampshire College, at one time among the most…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (147+ words) This article is brought to you by American Purpose, the magazine and community founded by Francis Fukuyama in 2020, which is proudly part of the Persuasion family. Among those targeted were university students. Student networks say at least 130 students were killed…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1842+ words) Daniel Diermeier is Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, where he has served since 2020. In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and Daniel Diermeier discuss why American universities are simultaneously world-leading and losing public trust, whether elite higher education creates dangerous separation between…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1876+ words) C. Thi Nguyen is a philosophy professor at the University of Utah. His latest book is The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else's Game. In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and C. Thi Nguyen discuss why metrics both help and harm…...