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March 1, 2014

The Value of Liberal Arts

Brian Casey, president of DePauw University, on fixing education and why universities may not be so pricey

Historic brick buildings and tree-lined walkways form the campus of DePauw University, a 2,300-student liberal arts college located about an hour west of Indianapolis, in Greencastle, Ind. At its helm since 2008, President Brian W. […] Read More

January 2, 2014

The Old and the New

Fighting fundamentalism; overcoming strengths that weaken; teaching yesterday’s ways

Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism by Karima Bennoune. W.W. Norton & Co., 2013. The pounding on her father’s door in Algiers led Karima Bennoune, then a human […] Read More

January 1, 2014

The EPA Agenda

An active year ahead for a contentious agency 

The Environmental Protection Agency’s latest administrator, Gina McCarthy, has six fractious months behind her, a widening mandate, a shrinking budget and staff, and the helm of an agency consistently criticized from one end of the […] Read More

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