Inside the fight to save American college from runaway careerism

The war against the great American tradition of a liberal arts college education — rich in the arts and literature, asking life's deep philosophical questions — feels like it's being waged right now on more fronts than the battle lines of World War II. The assault on learning for learning's sake has even hit the presidential campaign trial. In Iowa last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — avatar of the far right's so-called war on woke in the university classroom — told an audience in rural Salix that as president he'd put colleges on the hook for their students defaulting on their loans. That w...