Article: Robert Hutchins's platonic grove. (Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions)

Robert Hutchins's Platonic Grove

A few weeks ago the once world-renowned Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (founded by Robert Hutchins on a Santa Barbara, California, hilltop in 1959 to carry on a continuing dialogue to clarify the issues involved in maintaining a free and just society) went out of business. More accurately, it passed on its name and mailing list to New Perspectives Quarterly, a Los Angeles-based small-circulation journal published by Stanley Sheinbaum, once an economics fellow on the center's staff.

The rise and decline of the center, the most ambitious project of the now-defunct Fund for the Republic, established with Ford ...

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