Summer 2015 (29.2) Interview

An Interview with Jim Sleeper on the Future of Liberal Education

Is anything in liberal education nonnegotiable? In this EIA interview, Jim Sleeper, author of "Innocents Abroad: Liberal Educators in Illiberal Societies," published in the journal's summer 2015 issue, talks about how numerous American universities are testing these limits.

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IMAGE: EMPTY CLASSROOM. VIA FLICKR. COURTESY OF DON HARDER.

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