Author: Ed Hagenstein

Ed Hagenstein, of Medanales, New Mexico, is the author of the forthcoming Vanishing Point: In Search of Our Constitutional Future (RealClear Publishing, 2025), due for release on October 7. He also wrote The Language of Liberty: A Citizen’s Vocabulary (Rootstock, 2020) and was co-editor of American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land (Yale University Press, 2011).

An Academic Institute for Literature?

Two recent news items from academia caught the eye. One is that Harvard might establish a new institute for the study of civics and the Constitution. Presumably, this would be a self-governing body within the university with enough independence to pursue a distinct mission—in this case, a relatively traditional approach to its discipline. If Harvard […]

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