Edit: to respond to your main point, you don't think this experience your kid had at whatever elite college is exactly what Robinson is decrying? This is the in

Edit: to respond to your main point, you don't think this experience your kid had at whatever elite college is exactly what Robinson is decrying? This is the infiltration of the market into education, where students are treated as consumers rather than scholars and citizens. Original post: It's worth pointing out that "liberal" here means classical liberal, which is nearly the opposite of "liberal" in the context of American politics. I'm assuming by "classical liberal" you mean the ideology that arose in the 18th Century? Because liberal education is not that either. It is in fact orthogonal to modern American political liberalism. Liberal arts are the areas of study appropriate for a free human being (as opposed to a serf).