John Agresto

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March 18, 2022

Liberal Education and Religion

John Agresto

A review of "The Love of Learning: Seven Dialogues on the Liberal Arts, Margarita Mooney," ed., 2021, Cluny Media, pp. 242, $19.95 paperback.

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May 31, 2019

The Liberal Arts as Magic and as Paradox

John Agresto

John Agresto tells us that today’s liberal arts critics are wrong to discard the past, to teach that the best that has been said or written can only burden us with “old ideas and antique p......

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June 22, 2017

Toward an American Liberal Education

John Agresto

In the Summer 2017 Academic Questions (vol. 30, no. 2), John Agresto argues the usefulness and value of a liberal education in twenty-first century America.

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June 24, 2013

Humanists in High Dudgeon: The CFR-ALSCW Standoff

John Agresto

It's time to remember that the liberal arts "are not simply of personal benefit or esoteric private enjoyment but are and have always been of inestimable value to society."

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January 11, 2012

The Liberal Arts Bubble

John Agresto

John Agresto writes that the bubble before the bubble is the collapse of the liberal arts among student majors today. This article appeared in the winter 2011 issue of Academic Questions (vol. 24......

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