On blood money and “the moral costs of an elite education.”

References and suggested readings:

• David S. Busch. 2025. Disciplining Democracy: How the Modern American University Transformed Student Activism. Cornell University Press. 
• Ethan Schrum. 2019. The Instrumental University: Education in Service of the National Agenda after World War II. Cornell University Press.
• Julie A. Reuben. 1996. The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality. University of Chicago Press.
• Eleanor Roosevelt. 1940. The Moral Basis of Democracy. 
• Harris Wofford. 2023. Embers of the World: Conversations with Scott Buchanan. Legare Street Press.
• David Busch’s website: davidsbusch.com 

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