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The Wall Street Journal
‘Property Values’ Review: Paving Paradise
October 30, 2026
Joshua Specht, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of “Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America” (2019), the definitive history of America’s beef industry. In “Property Values” he writes that while “the history of American land” is often told as two stories—one a “story of homesteads and countryside, the other of single-family homes and suburbia”—it is instead “all one story” spanning “two great land regimes.”
MarketWatch
Do machines have feelings? AI has philosophers and tech leaders rethinking consciousness.
October 27, 2026
Meghan Sullivan, a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame, participated in one of these meetings and left “skeptical that an artificial agent could attain actual moral virtue,” she wrote in a Substack post.
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