Two two great North Carolina rivals can also cooperate on academics. In today’s Pope Center piece, Duke professor Jonathan Anomaly writes about the joint program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE).

PPE programs are not new — they go back some 90 years — but have been growing rapidly in the US in the last decade. The Duke/UNC program began ten years ago and is very popular with students who want a serious academic challenge. Understanding public choice theory is a large component of PPE and in my view, nothing does a better job of getting students to abandon leftist shibboleths about government than that.