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Podcast: Hardly Working with Brent Orrell
Episode: Pano Kanelos on St John’s College and the importance of the liberal arts
Description: The liberal arts are a frequent political punching bag for partisans on both sides of the aisle. Progressives have gotten used to “deconstructing” the “dead White males” of Western classics, leading populists to view them as either irrelevant for finding work or an actual threat to students’ well-being. What if neither view was right? What if the liberal arts are more important and more beneficial than they get credit for? One place where this idea has been put into practice since the 1930s is St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. St. John’s is famous for its gre...