Summer 2015 (29.2) • Interview

An Interview with Jim Sleeper on the Future of Liberal Education

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Jim Sleeper

Yale University

Zach Dorfman

Yahoo News; Former Senior Fellow, Ethics, Technology, and U.S. Foreign Policy and Fellow, "The Living Legacy of the First World War"

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This entry is part of the Summer 2015 (29.2) issue.

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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