How a Liberal Arts Education Can Inoculate Against Ideology

My liberal arts education served me as the spear of Ithuriel from Milton’s Paradise Lost. Once I held that spear in my hand and learned how to wield it, I could touch all the reading material I was assigned, and separate the precious from the vile, the good, true, and beautiful from the spurious, the gold, silver, and precious stones from the wood, hay,…