The Decline and Fall of the University

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2/9/2023Updated: 2/14/2023

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Since I retired from a university, several people have asked if I miss it. I tell them I miss what it was, but not what it has become. Higher education in America has gone from being the best in the world to some of the most pathetic.

Garrett Sheldon

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Garrett Ward Sheldon is professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. He taught political theory, American political thought, law, and religion. He has published 10 books, including “The History of Political Theory: Ancient Greece to Modern America,” “Religion and Politics: Major Thinkers on the Relation of Church and State,” and “The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson.” He was in residence at and commissioned by, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University, and a visiting scholar at the University of Vienna, Trinity College (Dublin), Moscow University, the University of Istanbul, and Princeton.