There are no "liberal" or "conservative" ideas. That's the language of electoral advertising.
There are just...ideas.
Asking if there's "too much" or "not enough" of such content in classrooms turns educational spaces into extensions of political advertising + cable news TV. 1/3
Substantive academic studies of classical liberalism + conservatism are great evidence for this argument. Truly understanding them requires examining the many different sources of those political worldviews, their internal diversity, how they address shared questions. 2/3
The classroom should be a space for suspending the normal temptation to reduce complex ideas, worthy of sustained discussion, to forms of partisan identity and electoral talking points. 3/3
