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Geoff Shullenberger

Geoff Shullenberger is managing editor at Compact. His writing has also appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Tablet, UnHerd, and other publications.
Articles by Geoff Shullenberger

What’s the Matter with Chile?

On September 11, 2023, Chile marked the fiftieth anniversary of the bloody military coup that toppled Socialist president Salvador Allende and installed General Augusto Pinochet, who presided over nearly two decades marked by human rights abuses and radical econom­ic reforms, making the country a laboratory for neoliberal policies…

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Mythology of the Deep State: The Novels of Dan Brown

In April 2003, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code hit bookstores. Judging by the modest sales of his previous novel, Angels and Demons, two years earlier, it’s unlikely that either Brown or his pub­lisher anticipated the new book’s sensational success. But just a year later, on the first anniversary of the release, Doubleday announced it…

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The Corruption of the Best: On Ivan Illich

The problem Illich diagnoses is not that the modern world has abandoned Christianity, but that institutionalized Christianity, in the centuries after Christ, initiated destabilizing tendencies that would be radicalized in the modern world. The result was a “temptation to try to manage and, eventually, legislate this new love. . . . This power is claimed first by the Church and later by the many secular institutions stamped from its mold.” Education, medicine, and NGOs promoting development, he argued, are all the Church’s unrecognized offspring.

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How We Forgot Foucault

Late last year, British trade minister Liz Truss caused a stir with a speech that pinned the failures of the British education system on “postmodernist philosophy,” which, she said, “puts societal power structures and labels ahead of individuals and their endeavours.” Due to the influence of such views, she went on, students learn about racism…

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