January 17, 2003
Why We Need Independent Centers for Advanced Study
In the last few years, centers for advanced study have proliferated in the United States and around the world. I don't mean specialized centers on individual campuses, although those have become more common than ever before, but broad-gauged centers, usually autonomous and primarily residential, with the mission of advancing scholarship in core areas of the humanities and the social and natural sciences. How are we to understand this phenomenon, and what are its future implications for the
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