I’d encourage everyone to take a look at Anthony Kronman’s article in Sunday’s Boston Globe, “Why are we here? Colleges ignore life’s biggest questions, and we all pay the price”—if for no other reason than that it contains statements like this:
“Multiculturalism, anti-colonialism, and insistence on race and gender as organizing principles of study are an expression of the anxious search for a new and morally honorable role for the humanities once their older role as guides to the meaning of life lost its credibility. It is that older role we now need to recover.”
For the full article, go to http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/09/16/why_are_we_here/
