How a media panic led to the modern research university with Chad Wellmon

On the origins of the German research university and what universities should be today.References and suggested readings:Chad Wellmon. 2016. Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University. Johns Hopkins University Press.Chad Wellmon. 2026. After the University: Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work. Johns Hopkins University Press. Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon. 2023. Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age. University of Chicago Press.The Other University episode with Chad Wellmon.Ann M. Blair. 2011. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age. Yale University Press.Frank Landymore. February 23, 2026. New AI Agent Logs Directly Into College Platform Canvas to Do Your Homework for You. Futurism.Daniel Mendelsohn, trans. 2026. The Odyssey. University of Chicago Press.Jonathan Lear. 2008. Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. Harvard University Press.Dennis Duncan. 2023. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age. W. W. Norton.What Was the Internet? Boston Review. August 2026.Follow Chad on Twitter @cwellmonChadwellmon.comText the show here!Support the showBrowse the American Campus bookshelf