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What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education
Christian Century, Nov 27, 2007
What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Polities and "Bias" in Higher Education. By Michael Berube. Norton, 368 pp., $15.95 paperback.
Michael Berube, professor of literature at Penn State University, does not deny that there is a liberal bias in American higher education, as charged by conservative ideologues like David Horowitz. Higher education, he argues, is the last remaining institution that is committed to the kind of critical, rational and open-ended discourse that toes no party line and is essential to democratic life. Colleges and universities should be defenders of two forms of liberalism, one substantive, the other formal: it is committed to the ideal of egalitarian human fights and to ensuring that debate about this ideal can take place freely. Unfortunately, when it comes to religion, Berube, an agnostic, has only religious fundamentalists on his radar screen and does not appreciate the fact that many religious people have critical reasons to support both kinds of liberalism.
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