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A discussion on “The Future of Liberal Arts Education” featuring three panelists will take place on Monday, Oct. 26, at 7:30 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Panelists include Roger Kimball, author and co-editor of The New Criterion, Manhattan Institute scholar James Piereson, and Adam Kissel, director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). The panel, sponsored by the Hamilton College History Department and the Alexander Hamilton Institute, is free and open to the public.

Kimball, a conservative social critic, is also co-publisher of The New Criterion magazine and publisher of Encounter Books. He is a frequent contributor to newspapers and journals, including The Wall Street Journal and National Review. Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education, published in 1990, is one of the books for which he is best known.

Piereson is a senior fellow and director of the Manhattan Institute Center for the American University and president of the William E. Simon Foundation. His research focuses on the importance of a classical liberal education and intellectual pluralism. Piereson’s most recent book was Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism. He has also published articles and reviews in numerous journals, including Commentary, The American Political Science Review and The Public Interest.

Kissel graduated from Harvard University and from the University of Chicago. He has served as a professional editor for Nobel laureate James Heckman and for faculty in a variety of disciplines. Before joining FIRE, Kissel was a director of the Lehrman American Studies Center and the Jack Miller Center for the Teaching of America's Founding Principles. In 2009, he won a first prize in education reporting from the National Education Writers Association.

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