Glad to see that this review finally came out in Christian Scholars Review. Just a bit….

“Geoffrey Galt Harpham has argued that conversation about crisis is fundamental to the humanities in the United States, an insight I extend to the liberal arts more generally.¹ Certainly, crisis-talk has spanned my own career. From internal academic anxiety over the wrecking ball of poststructuralism, to the cognate cultural wars of the eighties and nineties, to their present echoes with book bans, cancel culture, and semi-authoritarian interventions in higher education; from depression over the depressed state of hiring in the liberal arts, to hand-wringing over the elimination of liberal arts majors as students vote with their feet for other disciplines; and, not least, the serious concerns about the financial sustainability of liberal arts colleges: crises have been the norm, as have been arguments about them.

“The Liberating Arts is a new entry in this always earnest, often angsty conversation defending the liberal arts. The book joins this conversation, it seems to me, with a view toward providing accessible responses to popular perceptions of the liberal arts. This outward-facing plain speaking is the strength of the collection. ….”