It is an uncomfortable truth that higher education has become a bastion for the unsure; an expensive default for those who don't know what else to do with their lives. While most students come to college to check a box, there is still a select fraction that are driven to think dangerous thoughts, to challenge orthodoxy, to pursue truth.
Each semester, a small cohort of such students takes up a single charge: to trace the forces that shape the modern imagination. Guided by preeminent voices across government, enterprise, and the arts, Straussmen cut through noise and read the currents beneath it.