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.
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