*In 2013, the president of Emory University, James Wagner, set off a storm of controversy when he wrote in the campus magazine that the three-fifths compromise exemplified cooperation among people with different values and commitments in order to achieve “a common goal.” Wagner later apologized for what he called his “clumsiness and insensitivity,” but the controversy might have shortened his tenure as president. See Scott Jaschik, “Compromised Position,” Inside Higher Ed, Feb. 18, 2013.