Some eyebrows went up when, right after Bush's State of the Union, I decried his proposed emphasis on math and science education, to the patent detriment of the humanities. Now, here comes academic luminary and prolific intellectual author Martha Nussbaum — someone who should know, and about whom more later — beating the same drum:
"The scientific part of liberal education," she writes, "much though it needs intelligent thought, is, however, in no danger of attrition, since everyone agrees that scientific literacy is crucial to America
