Colleagues from a liberal arts college and a center‑right think tank ran a workshop that helps faculty design courses on the conservative intellectual tradition, aiming to reintroduce Buckley‑style thinkers and classical conservative texts into undergraduate curricula without partisan coercion. The organizers argue such courses give students tools to critique both left‑wing enthusiasms and superficial online right‑wing movements.
— Framing the teaching of conservative thought as a curricular repair has broad implications for academic hiring, syllabus content, campus polarization, and how universities cultivate civic reasoning.
Rachel Mackey
2026.04.02
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Mansfield (a prominent Harvard conservative professor) uses his new book and course material to reframe canonical texts (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Nietzsche) as a single narrative about 'rational control' and to invite readers/students back into a liberal‑education curriculum that foregrounds these conservative intellectual resources — a concrete instance of conservative pedagogical projects that seek to reinsert traditional curricula into public universities.
Gerald R. McDermott
2026.04.02
72% relevant
The article advances a civic‑repair argument for classical Christian schooling and Catholic higher education that maps onto the existing idea of presenting conservative commitments (religious, moral, curricular) as a legitimate pluralist option in education; it names actors (Catholic universities and classical Christian schools) and pushes a policy/cultural prescription about how to form citizens.
Benjamin Storey
2025.12.01
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Concrete example: a Spring workshop organized by Jon A. Shields and Benjamin Storey at Claremont McKenna/American Enterprise Institute that drew ideologically mixed faculty and emphasized the distinction between deep conservative intellectual traditions and 'contemporary online right' (quote from Frank Lechner).