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This $75 million gift might make higher ed question its obsession with science and tech

  • Written by Peter E. Knox, Eric and Jane Nord Family Professor, Case Western Reserve University
Investor Bill Miller is betting that today's students can prosper from studying philosophers like Socrates and Plato. Anastasios71/Shutterstock.com

During his unsuccessful campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Marco Rubio made the dubious (and grammatically unsound) assertion that “we need more welders and less...

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