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EventsSep 21, 2021Mark Malloch-Brown
discusses the Open Society Foundations’ plans to support climate adaptation in the Global South in order to level the global climate action playing field.
EventsJul 8, 2021Nancy Qian
highlights the complexities of delivering universal health coverage, and pinpoints the education and governance goals that must be achieved first.
EventsJul 8, 2021David Miliband
outlines the basic changes that could have prevented the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic – and will help prevent the next one.
EventsJul 8, 2021Carl Manlan
proposes ways for African governments to leverage their assets not only to strengthen their public-health systems, but also to advance development more broadly.
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Three recent books by established academics add to the chorus of those decrying the slow and steady death of what used to be called a “liberal education.” Because a proper understanding of history and human complexity is necessary for democracy, Daniel Chirot of the University of Washington thinks the authors are right to worry.
reviews three recent books that aim to defend liberal education in an age of anti-liberal extremes.
