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Biography

Jacob Howland served as Provost and Dean of the Intellectual Foundations Program at the University of Austin from 2022 to 2025, and before that, as McFarlin Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa. The author of five books on Plato, Kierkegaard, and the Talmud, he will be a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Civic Leadership at the University of Texas in AY 2026-27.

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Liberal Education as Civic Renewal

Higher Education
March 16, 2026
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Civitas Outlook
Justice Harlan and President Trump Are Right About Birth Tourism

The Supreme Court should follow Justice Harlan’s lead: Children of illegal aliens are citizens at birth, but children born to pregnant women on temporary tourist visas are not.

Josh Blackman

Constitutionalism

April 30, 2026

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Chicago’s “Disappearing Middle Class” Can Be Found in Its Proliferating Upper Middle-Class Neighborhoods

The middle class has not been hollowed out; rather, the overall decline stems from the net movement of families upward into the upper-middle class.

Scott Winship

Economic Dynamism

April 30, 2026

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