The value of a liberal education is no longer self-evident. Despite a torrent of books and essays extolling a liberal arts education’s value and utility, broad segments of the public have grown ...

According to the University of Texas, the four overriding purposes of a liberal education are the comprehension of “liberty” and “humanism;” the “contemplation of truth and virtue;” and mastering the ...

The problems in contemporary liberal education are exacerbating problems in our practice of liberal democracy. Liberal education today does a poor job of teaching young people the art of ...

Stanford’s shrewd President Ray Lyman Wilbur and his trustees were not born yesterday: they know how to take advantage of a trend by going against it. Last week, as liberal arts colleges all over the ...

It has been said that the finest nineteenth-century prose was composed in the 1940s by Lionel Trilling. Not only the style but also the sentiments of his essays evoked the work of Matthew Arnold and ...