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May 20, 2026

The Academy Must Reclaim the Dialectical Search for Truth

A dialogue.

Amid the morass of America’s elite universities, there are sprinkled wise and intelligent faculty members committed to serious scholarship and to educating their students. Two of the most impressive of these are the Harvard Bible professor Jon D. Levenson and the Princeton legal and political theorist Robert P. George (both of whom have contributed to Mosaic). In a recent dialogue, they investigate the sources of what ails the contemporary academy. George argues that crucial to liberal education is an acknowledgment that

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