Episode 27 - Jonathan Marks Struggle to Understand

This is an episode in an on-going series on liberal arts education. In this episode, I speak with Jonathan Marks. Jonathan has a PhD from the University of Chicago and is a Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Ursinus College. We explore what is a liberal arts education and how it relates to the “great books” of the Western intellectual canon, the conflicts that have arisen from the “battle of the books” both in the 1990s and Jonathan’s new book “Let’s be Reasonable: A conservative case for liberal education.” Our discussion is a bit broader here than the first episode in this series but this broadness helps illustrate one of the benefits that comes from engaging in this form of pedagogy and participating with this ever-evolving canon of authors and works.

Find Jonathan's book here. 

Introductory music was written by Alex Yoder. Find him here

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