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What is liberal education, and what should it be? If such an education liberates, what does it liberate from? How does that liberation happen? What virtues does liberal education cultivate? What are its characteristic pitfalls? How does liberal education relate to the contemporary debates of political life, and how might it serve the public good? This course, co-taught by a professor of postcolonial politics at Johns Hopkins University and a conservative scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, will bring together divergent perspectives around a set of landmark texts about liberal education for a common conversation, engaging with enduring questions and contemporary political controversies.