‘Take Power—Vote Liberal’: Jeremy Thorpe, the 1974 Liberal Revival, and the Politics of 1970s Britain

The liberal arts connection.

Occupational therapists need to be critical of who teaches, what is taught, how it is taught, how it is applied, and to whom it is taught in the entire education program of prospective occupational therapists. Further, I recommend that occupational therapy educators on campus take the lead in initiating meetings and discussions that facilitate a functional conjoining of occupational therapy pra...

Liberal Arts and Medicine The Liberal Arts and Medicine: How the Liberal Arts Tradition Can Impact Health Care Reform

Unreason and the liberal tradition

It is conventionally thought impermissible to force treatment on a patient, even when his life is at stake. Following Kant or Mill, we may defend this convention either by appealing to the inviolability of autonomy, or to the benefits of treating liberty as inviolable, subject only to considerations of harm to others. In both cases, an exception might be made for mental illness. For Kant, auton...

Neuroscience and the Liberal Arts

Astonishingly, almost 25 years after the publication of “A Nation at Risk,” the clarion call for a radical overhaul of America’s education system, our Nation continues to find its students performing poorly on international exams in mathematics and sciences. In the spring of 2007, the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21 Century published the mos...

The Neoconservatives: Liberal

BEYOND A N Y DOUBT Peter Steinfels’ investigation of neoconservatism raises more questions than it answers.* Equally beyond dispute, the unanswered questions are the more important and significant for an understanding of the intellectual climate and landscape of a very troubled republic. To see why this is so, as well as to do justice to Steinfels’ efforts (which are not inconsiderable by any m...