Sublime

Frank Donoghue, the author of The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, writes that liberal arts education has been systemically dismantled for decades. Any form of learning not strictly vocational has at best been marginalized and in many schools abolished. Students are steered away from asking the broad, distur

Clinton was hammered on other aspects of Libya, but it was the incoherence of the policy that hurt her the most. Every time she praised her foreign policy experience, Libya came up.

Their first duty—the reporting of news—ensures the citizenry has access to reliable information to make informed arguments and decisions.

History had taught republicans to distrust luminaries.

Schudson refers to this conception of democracy as the Informed Citizen model and notes that it came with undesirable consequences. For one thing, it places heavy demands on citizens to inform themselves about candidates and issues.

“It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the progressive mind was characteristically a journalistic mind,” the historian Richard Hofstadter observed, “and that its characteristic contribution was that of the socially responsible reporter-reformer.”

the deeper the study of modern war is carried the stronger grows the conviction of its futility.

John Dewey and Paulo Freire in articulating the interrelation of politics and education.

Television is the battleground on which public opinion is formed.