Jeremi Suri: Universities Need Our Support
This column first appeared in The Daily Texan. With all the recent attacks on higher education in the United States, perhaps most noticeably in funding cuts to...
Author Archive: Jeremi Suri
What We Can Learn From Tiananmen Square, 25 Years Later
A quarter century after the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, UT historian Jeremi Suri reflects on what’s changed about China—and what hasn’t. This...
A Certain Breed of Fascism: Jeremi Suri on Putin
Effective policy-making begins by accurately assessing adversaries. Americans have a tendency to assume that their opponents are either pathetic pipsqueaks, ranting...
The Last of Our Heroes: Jeremi Suri on Nelson Mandela
A UT history professor explores why we need heroes like Nelson Mandela—and what Mandela’s passing means for the world. This column first appeared on Global...
What Kind of History Should We Teach?
About two years ago I moved from Madison to Austin because I was convinced that the flagship university in Texas was building the best group of scholars and students...
Frontier U
In 1958, during the height of the Cold War, University of Texas Provost Harry Ransom wrote of a “counterfrontier” that challenged the stereotypical image...
Bombs, Protests, and the Contagion of Violence
I write this blog post as I sit in a Starbucks Cafe, three blocks from my faculty office. The small space is jam-packed with students and faculty drenched by a welcomed...
Remembering Neil Armstrong and the American Dream
Neil Armstrong lived the American dream. His life should inspire us to make that dream a reality again today. We have many challenges, but our society still has...
Jeremi Suri: Lessons From a Fallen Empire
Americans are more innovative than ever, says UT historian Jeremi Suri—but our government isn’t. To ensure future excellence, Suri argues, we must look to...
Why Public University Presidents Are Under Fire
We know an industry is in crisis when its top institutions cannot establish stable leadership. That is the case with some of our nation’s best public universities...
