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The Value of Liberal Arts in a Recession

The New York Times recently published an article, “In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth.” The division between science and the humanities is a recent contrivance, and its maintenance has no good historical precedent. The humanist training, the whetting of mental faculties that not only separate us from the animals but allow us to weigh and manage the fruit and potential fruit of our technical wizardry, is as essential to a growing society as the freedom that makes it possible. Continue reading

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