The Fate and Fortunes of Public Goods
How the New Deal paved the way for the Great Society and the creation of a federal agency devoted to the humanities.
Liberal Arts
How Do You Make a Living, Entrepreneur?
Noah Davis talks to Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake about skipping class, the value of a liberal arts education, and the most difficult language to learn.
Cracking the Code of the New Economy
Don’t be afraid to stick with your liberal arts education. If history is any guide, it could be just as valuable as knowing how to write code.
Save the Humanities—From Themselves
The humanities and social sciences in America could use a white knight, but instead they got a white elephant.
Are Vocational Education, Liberal Arts on a Collision Course?
As even liberal arts colleges continue to turn their back on the liberal arts, where will the technocrats produced by higher education hone their thinking skills to address the current crisis in governing?
'Wither' the Liberal Arts College?
Writer and Oberlin English professor Anne Trubek quizzes Victor E. Ferrall Jr., author of "Liberal Arts on the Brink," about the glum future of the American liberal arts college.
The Crisis in Liberal Arts Education
Questions about the direction and pertinence of a liberal arts education mirror questions being asked about the classical university as a whole.