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New York Post - Column

January 19, 2012

Humanities courses in liberal arts colleges have replaced the canon of Western civilization with course offerings in gay scholarship, feminism, race studies and the like - all aimed to show our benighted past and to condition us to a more tolerant future. Students have fled such courses in droves to pursue technical or professional skills in colleges that now award most of their degrees outside the liberal arts. Their parents - and increasingly the students themselves, through loans - are left footing the bill for degrees that neither pay off in the marketplace nor enrich the intellectual lives of those on whom they are conferred.

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