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No. 2 · Reinventing the UniversityWhy higher education must become a lifelong, community-integrated learning ecosystem, and how to get there Summary: AI is changing what’s worth learning, climate change demands practical skills that have largely been lost, the college-age population is shrinking in much of the world, and trust in higher education is falling. Drawing on a career as a professor, dean, founder of Duke Corporate Education, and negotiator of Duke Kunshan Universit

No. 1 · Reinventing CanadaWhy one of the world’s best-positioned countries must challenge its assumptions, build real things, and scale fast Summary: Canada’s greatest challenge isn’t housing, healthcare, trade or climate. It’s that the assumptions it has run on for eighty years no longer apply: an open American market, a guaranteed security umbrella, Canada as a climate haven, and an identity built on being “not the United States.” Value is moving toward what Canada has, but