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Ryan Shinkel

Ryan Shinkel
Ryan Shinkel is a graduate of the University of Michigan and an alum of The John Jay Institute in Philadelphia.

What do Eurosceptic movements, support for Donald Trump, and recent college protesters have in common? All are populist reactions to political correctness and its precondition of abolishing our common political sense of what we...
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George Orwell wrote: “The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism.” Though that may have been the case in 1946, the enemies of intellectual liberty on...
1 2025

In this essay, I propose that the paradigm presented by Matthew Arnold on the meaning of culture can and should be a response for understanding the eroding arts and humanities today. The Unmapped...