June–August 2025

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Man + Machine

Brown's new AI czar Michael Littman ’96 PhD

Content

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University News

Higher Ed Under Fire

How Brown is responding

Beyond the Gates

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Land of Six Hundred Thousand Despots

The autobiography of an enslaved man describes 1800s America