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The liberal arts - is welcome and remarkable on account or its wide-ranging and unusual effort to ground the ideas and practices of the liberal arts in the context or philosophy. The point or this endeavor is to remind us that language is the essential instrument of inquiry. Therefore, the liberal arts are essential to democracy; they enable citizens to understand that the life of the mind and free society go hand in hand.

- Leon Botstein, President and Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Bard College

About the Author: Jeffrey Scheuer

Jeffrey Scheuer writes mainly about politics, media, history, and education.

His first book, The Sound Bite Society (1999) was named a Choice “Outstanding Academic Title.”He is also the author of The Big Picture: Why Democracies Need Journalistic Excellence (2007).

Scheuer has published essays, articles, reviews and commentary in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and some two dozen other daily newspapers, and has also published in Dissent, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Gettysburg Review, Potomac Review, Wilson Quarterly, Nieman Reports, Philosophy Now, Private Pilot, and elsewhere.