Patrick Deneen on the role of higher ed in politics: “The best course would be for those of us living and working at universities — who would, I hope, agree that it is best not to be a weathervane of the federal government — to make ourselves less reviled or viewed as a partisan operation by opening ourselves to legitimate debates and increasing the presence of faculty and students of genuinely different perspectives and views. We might play a role in moderating and even healing the division that now mars our nation, and engaging in the work of inquiry and exploration to which we should be mutually dedicated.”