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Don Michael Randel

Don Michael Randel is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Chicago, a prominent American musicologist, and the fifth, now retired, president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He has previously served as the twelfth president of the University of Chicago.

Spectacle and distraction

May 28, 2026

Don Michael Randel

Spectacle and distraction

Don Michael Randel explains how the Know-Nothing campaign against universities contradicts the administration's stated policy goals.

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