It's so easy and comfortable being a liberal. You never have to admit you're wrong when you demonstrably are. Neither do you have to be concerned with lack of support, because the liberal ...

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 ...

It hit me in a flash last week as I listened to a professor explain why arguments that sound plausible can turn out to be false. The postliberals, the NatCons, the alt-rightists, the integralists, the ...

There are words we know, and there are words we argue about, working our way to a shared meaning. And then there is that unique category of terms that, once they appear, stubbornly refuse to succumb ...

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" ...

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 ...