Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The term “liberal arts” is one of the most misunderstood terms in the public discourse on higher education today. A higher ...

It hit me in a flash last week as I listened to a professor explain why arguments that sound plausible can turn out to be false. The postliberals, the NatCons, the alt-rightists, the integralists, the ...

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While I commend Heidi Anwiler for her May 18, 2017 letter, "Here's what being a liberal means to me" and the courage it took to publicly make the proclamations within, she left more questions than ...

Blaine Greteman is professor and chair of English of the University of Iowa. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The term “liberal arts” is one of the ...