A Public Lecture by Brandon Warmke

Everyone seems to agree that universities have problems and need some kind of reform. But what are the problems and what kind of reforms are needed? Unfortunately, higher education’s pathologies are too pervasive, too widespread, and too entrenched for universities to be able to make the necessary reforms themselves. If universities are to be repaired, the reform must be radical: it must come from those outside the ivory tower.

Join the Washington Center of Civics, Culture, and Statesmanship for a public lecture examining whether America's universities are in need of radical reform. Brandon Warmke is Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida's Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education. He was previously Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University and, during the 2023–2024 academic year, a visiting fellow at the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research spans moral responsibility, forgiveness, free expression, and public discourse.

Warmke is the co-author, with Justin Tosi, of Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Why It's OK to Mind Your Own Business (Routledge, 2023), and co-editor of Forgiveness and Its Moral Dimensions (Oxford University Press, 2021). Their work has appeared in CNN, Aeon, The Conversation, and MarketWatch, and has been featured in The Atlantic, New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and The Guardian, among other outlets.