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Common Reader: a jargon-free zone

Smart writing on timely topics for the widest possible audience — this is the mission of The Common Reader, a new online journal launched this fall by Gerald Early, PhD, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, to help shape the national conversation about essential issues of our time.

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Our overarching goal is to enhance

our leadership today to benefit America and the world tomorrow. How do we achieve that? We focus on key issues facing a global society.

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