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Which Languages Should Liberal Arts Be About in 2010? (J. McWhorter)

December 13, 2010, The New Republic

We are to bemoan that universities across the country are eliminating or scaling back their foreign language departments. Or, what seems to arouse critics most is the disappearance of French, German, and Italian departments—what with Goethe, Balzac and Dante being pillars of a liberal arts education and so on. Read more...