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Thursday, May 14, 2026
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Notre Dame v. academic freedom

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Notre Dame serves the global academic community best when it does not mimic the illusory neutrality of its peers, but offers a consistent alternative.








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Deathbed soliloquies

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Final confession: the question “How do you feel about graduating?” has, since it was first uttered before me, forever been analogous to the question “How do you feel about dying?”