American culture

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/19/2021
  

  ‘If We Don’t Adapt, We Will Wither Away’: Louis Menand on the University

  "What we teach in the liberal arts — hermeneutics, history, and theory — are intended to help you do this. Professional schools don’t teach these things. You are not going to learn them anywhere else."

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• 6/16/19
  

  Why is Brazil so American?

  by Marcos Sorrilha Pinheiro

  Given Brazil's history, it is fully understandable that its current president, a retired military man from the Brazilian middle class, has a genuine admiration for Trump and his followers. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  3/18/19
  

  Americans don’t believe in meritocracy — they believe in fake-it-ocracy

  by Niall Ferguson

  This illegal “side door” into college came into existence because the back door of a fat donation — like the $2.5 million paid by Jared Kushner’s father to Harvard — isn’t 100 percent reliable.

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• SOURCE: Christianity Today
  

  God and the Gridiron Game

  by Paul Putz and Hunter Hampton

  America's obsession with football is nearly as old as the game itself.