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Public institutions of supposedly liberal learning, which are increasingly alienating mainstream Americans, have no entitlement to public support.
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Standing with Erasmus, Undaunted
It all started during a golf outing on the plush courses of northern Maine (summer, I presume) among Bowdoin president Barry Mills and Thomas Klingenstein, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the...
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A School of Second Chances
“There was a palpable silence in the class,” a professor writes, “as I talked about the 620,000 people who died, the 4 million slaves who were liberated, the President (in my opinion, our best...
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An Education for This Republic
Josiah Bunting III Published over a decade ago, Josiah Bunting III’s An Education for Our Time presents the plan of dying, septuagenarian billionaire John Adams, a descendant of those Adamses, for a...
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Liberal Arts and Self-Government: A Test Case
This November, political scientists will have an invaluable opportunity to undertake a case study in the effect of liberal education and liberal arts colleges on the rationality, integrity, and tone of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Legal Education Better Call Saul
This site features an excellent Liberty Forum discussion this month on the future of legal education. If Ken Randall is right about a “blue ocean for law schools” (and he probably is), it looks like a...
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Marco Rubio vs. Aristotle?
Aristotle, unfortunately, won’t be on the ballot. Marco Rubio’s form of dissing liberal education is probably more ridiculous than the more insistent and policy-driven efforts of Scott Walker, although...
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Victorian engraving of the death of Socrates. Marco Rubio demonstrated keen political instincts during one of the primary debates when he used his opening remarks to argue for an end to the...
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There is no more fateful failure of modern political thought than its failure to distinguish between elitism and social exclusivity. From this failure stems an enormous, costly, and increasingly...
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Tyler Olson/Shutterstock.comTo justify the liberal arts, we have to use language deeper than utility.
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