Why Study the Liberal Arts?

So many positive answers to why we should study the liberal arts seem maybe romantic or trite. Partly it has something to do with the fact that so many treatments don't define clearly what they mean by liberal arts, he says. To make some progress, though in this debate about,. let's call them the liberal arts for our purposes here, we need a clearer conception of what it is we're talking about," writes David Frum.