Karl Popper on Habermas and Adorno...

"A teacher with one standard deviation higher mean grade inflation reduces the present discounted value of lifetime earnings of their students by $213,872 per year of teaching." econweb.umd.edu/~pope/Grade_In…

Today we released our new NBER working paper: "Easy A's, Less Pay: The Long-Term Effects of Grade Inflation." Joint work with Rachel Nesbit, Nolan Pope, and Merrill Warnick. Grades in U.S. high schools have risen steadily over the past several decades, but the effect is unknown

I must admit that, among all the thinkers I admired when I was 20, none has fallen further in my estimation than Karl Popper. I will leave aside his contributions to the philosophy of science and speak only about The Open Society and Its Enemies. My admiration for that book was

New in Theory and Society (Springer Nature), the first systematic, cross-disciplinary, assessment of ideology in social science, drawing from ~600,000 social science abstracts across ~60 years. Check it out here (open access!): link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Important article just out using LLM’s to analyze the political valence of social science abstracts over 60+ years. Some key results: - Social science does, indeed, exhibit leftward slant. - This slant has increased substantially over the past several decades. - It is

How do Aristotle & Thomas Aquinas relate to Quantum Field Theory & the nature of matter? Dr. William Simpson explores how neo-Aristotelian metaphysics illuminates contemporary physics. Find all 3 articles: go.osu.edu/DE8g, go.osu.edu/DE8k, go.osu.edu/DE8n

Do your kids hate green beans? Why are American children such fussy eaters? Dr. Daniel Gullotta reviews a new book on the history of how today's kids are much pickier than previous generations. go.osu.edu/DE93

Our charge as a land-grant university to improve the lives of the people we serve is truly a noble mission. It’s a privilege to be part of this work.

It's course registration time! Let's explore our great courses coming this autumn, starting with "Can We Rule Ourselves? (CIVICLL 2000)". This course surveys the origins, institutions, achievements & failures of past efforts at self-government. go.osu.edu/DAQN

Love a good debate? Have we got a class for you! "America's Foundational Debates (CIVICLL 2130)" surveys enduring debates within the American constitutional order. GE Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World. Our Autumn 2026 course offerings are at go.osu.edu/DAQN

The Chase Center's Dr. William Simpson has been named an Honorary Fellow of the Durham University Department of Philosophy. In this role, he will be spending this summer researching "Minding Your Matter," exploring the philosophy of nature, broadly conceived. Congratulations!

In "Science, Health, and the Good Life (CIVICLL 3215)" students survey works of history, philosophy, religion, art, & literature that address the purposes of science, the meaning of health & wellbeing, & contemporary problems. Autumn 2026 courses: go.osu.edu/DAQN

Does politics make people smarter or dumber? Another of our most popular courses from Spring, "How Politics Breaks Your Brain (CICIVLL 3300 / 3300E" is also available as an Honors Course! GE Theme: Citizenship in a Diverse & Just World All our courses: go.osu.edu/DAQN

Last night, Randy Barnett offered the last Chase Center public presentation of the academic year: "Is the Declaration of Independence Our Law? Lessons From Salmon P. Chase's Antislavery Constitutionalism." Couldn't attend? Watch here for a video of the talk, coming soon!

Columbus City Schools is one of many in Ohio currently on a course for insolvency. Vladimir Kogan digs into the ways in which political pressures pushed leaders to make irresponsible, short-term decisions and lays out the cautionary tale for other districts to avoid. Chad Aldis

Columbus City Schools is one of many in Ohio currently on a course for insolvency. Vladimir Kogan digs into the ways in which political pressures pushed leaders to make irresponsible, short-term decisions and lays out the cautionary tale for other districts to avoid.

How Columbus City Schools went broke by Vladimir Kogan fordhaminstitute.org/ohio/commentar…

Dr. Daniel Gullotta (third from the left in the photo) was recently invited to be part of a panel at Xavier University for the conference “America at 250: Legacy, Learning, and Local Impact.” The topic was “Moment or Momentum? Universities, Civic Education & America.”

The winners of the Chase Center’s 2026 student civics writing competition were announced 4/21 at the Chase Society meeting. Congratulations to Deacon Humbert, Adil Zafar, James Kolak, and Sarina Mathis. Copy/paste to read the whole story: go.osu.edu/DHNH