The idea that a classical liberal arts education is beneficial for many students has never lost its appeal, even though fewer and fewer colleges offer anything like it any more. But some schools continue their classical curriculum and some writers extol it.

In today’s Martin Center article, Jennifer Jensen of John Adams College (one of those schools) reviews a book that purports to make the case for classical liberal arts education. She was not impressed.

As a professor of the classical liberal arts, I began reading Bob Pepperman Taylor’s new book, Liberal Education and Democracy, with interest. Taylor, who teaches law and politics at the University of Vermont, surveys a wide range of thought leaders,........

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