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The Permanent Questions: What is the Good Life? (Podcast)

Podcast interview with host David Brooks. Philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan doesn’t just want to teach her students about virtue; she wants to make them better human beings.

Photos: United States Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh speaks at Notre Dame on 9/11 anniversary

Vincent Phillip Muñoz, director of the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government at the University of Notre Dame, speaks before a Jeanie Poole O'Shaughnessy Memorial Lecture at DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at Notre Dame on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, in South Bend. The lecture was held in remembrance on the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

The transformative power of the liberal arts

With 19 departments across the humanities, arts, and social sciences, the College of Arts & Letters is home to exceptional faculty and talented students who are studying what they love. It's an environment to ask big questions, read classic texts, and explore languages and cultures.

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Graduate Education

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Research

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