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 Posted: Fri 21:29, 02 Aug 2013 Post subject: Pop Culture Has Turned Against the Liberal Arts_1 |
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Pop Culture Has Turned Against the Liberal Arts Kevin Craft Sep 27 2012,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 4:39 PM ET Tweet More Email Print Remember when action heroes could be archaeology professors?ParamountThe liberal arts have gotten a bad rap lately—or, if you believe the cover line on the September 17 issue of The Weekly Standard, are dead. A mere month and a half before a presidential election, the conservative publication took time out of voicing support for Mitt Romney's business-minded ticket to have writer and retired lecturer Joseph Epstein lay out a paean to Epstein's own days first as a student and then as a teacher of liberal arts. In praising Andrew Delbanco's book College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, Epstein spends thousands of words arguing that a liberal arts education isn't what it used to be—though he provides little hard data to support this claim—before concluding that professors' willingness to politicize and expand core curricula is to blame. Whether or not you agree with the arguments presented, the tone is decidedly
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