The radicalism of the liberal arts tradition From: Academe | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Lears, Jackson | Copyright American Association of University Professors Jan/Feb 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Can liberal

education survive

in a university

increasingly

committed to the

ideals of the market,

the corporation,

and

the entrepreneur?

For some time now, critics of American higher education have depicted it as caught up in a cultural war between politically correct leftists inside the university and neoconservative curmudgeons outside it. According to this account, the curmudgeons argue that the pursuit of free intelle...

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