A Liberal Education – Should academics join the government?

“Last month was decision time for the many academics who left their tenured jobs to work in the Obama administration. Universities standardly grant leave for at most two years, at which point a professor must either return or resign. Some, of course, can hope to be rehired later, but prudence often rules …” (more)

[Martha C Nussbaum, New Republic, 11 March]

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