The liberal arts have been having a rough time. The left tends to see them as part and parcel of a racist system that must be overthrown, and the right sees them as either a waste of time or part of the woke industrial complex. All this leads us to ask: Are they doomed? Should they be?

This week, I sat down with Ted Hadzi-Antich of the Great Questions Foundation for a conversation about the essential role the liberal arts and “great books” play in personal formation, career success, and long-term happiness.

Show Notes:

St John’s College

Plato’s Republic

Baruch Spinoza

Niccolò Machiavelli

Austin Community College

University of Strasbourg

Allegory of the Cave

Great Questions Foundation

AEI STEM report

David Deming social skills report

Ramayana

Sundiata

Euclid’s Elements

Teagle Foundation