In 2011, he left MSNBC, and if some people there were glad to be rid of him, they were nevertheless grateful for the business model he had helped them discover: in the post-Olbermann era, MSNBC remains a network devoted to liberal political analysis, even though many of the hosts are gentler and calmer (and, often, less funny) than Olbermann had been.
St. John's College, with campuses in Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, is an independent, four-year college that is devoted to liberal education.
These students aren't just trying to reinforce their identities; they are trying to expand their horizons in just the way one would expect at an institution devoted to liberal education.
This seems very odd since Crossroads GPS spent every donated dollar – about $330 million – on politics, either to fund its own campaigns to smear liberal candidates and causes or to fund other organizations devoted to smearing liberal candidates and causes.
Nonetheless, her conviction led her in 1834 to undertake the raising of funds for a school devoted to the liberal education of women.
That March, a reporter with CNS News, a Web site devoted to countering "liberal bias" in the media, came across what seemed to be the quintessential example of such waste — a National Science Foundation grant to Yale University for a study of duck penises.
Or, at least, a certain swathe of Swedish society devoted to "promoting liberal values and challenging traditional views on gender, race and sexual orientation" — a.k.a. the children's book-publishing industry.
Among its well-respected private institutions, USC, the oldest independent university in the West (1880), has outstanding professional schools; the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has earned great distinction in the sciences; and the Claremont Colleges, Occidental College, and Loyola Marymount are among the excellent smaller institutions devoted to the liberal arts.
For instance, Michael Rothschild, the dean of the school, was recently among three faculty members singled out in a report entitled "Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing American and What Can Be Done About It," prepared by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni in Washington -- a conservative nonprofit group devoted to curbing liberal tendencies in academia.
Most contemporary governments and even private bodies are devoted to a liberal conception of help, they have no "content," they want to help people to stay alive and yet they make no suggestions about what these people might do with their lives.
Initially conceived of as a small college devoted to the liberal arts, he ordered the campus built for a maximum of 1,500 students and recruited many young junior faculty to fill teaching positions.
