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Liberal Education

December 27, 2021

Dear Mr. Bolotin: I Wish It Were Only That Bad

David Acevedo

Social justice ideology has redefined the meaning of “equality” and “freedom,” devastating the study of humanities. The answer? Return, without shame, to the reading of Great B......

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December 27, 2021

A Poor Substitute for Religion

Helen Andrews

While “wokeness” attracts students starved for purpose and meaning, it fails to produce people whose excellent personal qualities are self-evident. Liberal education does just that.

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December 27, 2021

Liberal Education and Politics: An Introduction

Keith Whitaker

National Association of Scholars Board Chairman Keith Whitaker introduces David Bolotin’s provocative remarks at a St. John’s College presentation.

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December 27, 2021

Liberal Education and Politics

David Bolotin

Political correctness, with its power to enforce consequences on those who challenge its orthodoxies, has suppressed the reasoned examination of society’s deepest moral convictions.

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December 14, 2020

Eva Brann’s Dialogue

Elizabeth C'de Baca Eastman

One of the great liberal educators of our time and a National Humanities Medal recipient, Eva Brann is a tireless scholar and mentor whose work “stands out because it draws on the foundation tha......

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December 14, 2020

Restoration of Academic Identity: On Truth and Responsibility

Micah Sadigh

Preparing the mind for meaningful discovery—precisely what liberal education is charged with doing—has been superseded in colleges and universities by the values of “management.̶......

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December 14, 2020

Irving Howe: A Leftism of Reason

Fred Siegel

A central figure in that group known colloquially as the “New York intellectuals” and the founding editor of Dissent, Irving Howe stubbornly maintained his commitment to Enlightenment valu......

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March 23, 2020

Undergraduate Education and the Maturation of Students

Craig Evan Klafter

The purpose of liberal arts education was once conceived as the social and intellectual maturation of students. But with the importation of “Humboldtian” distribution requirements in the n......

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September 3, 2019

Liberal Education and Its Postmodern Critics

Stephen R.C. Hicks

In the final entry of our “Incapacity” feature, Stephen Hicks argues that supporters of liberal education must wrest control of our schools back from postmodernists who, in their rejection......

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