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 ...

Liberal: In economics, the belief that those who’ve benefited most from life in America have the greatest obligation to the ...

The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On “Liberal” as an Adjective, by Michael Walzer (Yale University Press, 176 pp., $30) A debate about liberalism broadly understood suffuses contemporary American ...

I didn't mean to, but there I was reading Jeff Hill's letter (July 24) blaming liberals for everything wrong in the world and maybe the universe. When I was a child in the 1940s and '50s, only "rich" ...

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 ...