I’ve written here before about Marco Rubio’s tendency to hold up philosophy as the pre-eminent example of a useless college major, as he did again last night. I think it’s rooted in a mistaken idea of the role that liberal education can play in a liberal society, and yet I also think the actual changes to federal higher-ed policies that Rubio is advancing and has done a lot to develop would be very helpful to liberal education (and to higher education generally).

Read the article “Philosophers and Welders” on nationalreview.com.