Democracy and Liberal Arts Are Dying Together
Can either be saved?
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6 min readMar 20, 2023
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The authority for many people today is Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, or [insert your favorite leftist]. Almost nobody reads John Locke’s The Second Treatise of Government to understand the underpinnings of American democracy. They listen…