Johann N. Neem

Johann N. Neem is author of What’s the Point of College? Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019) and Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017). He is professor of history at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.


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Walking Among the University’s Ruins

Some wager that the end is not inevitable: that universities can reassert their centrality to the American liberal democratic project.