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In an era of billion-dollar high-tech start-ups and fierce global competition in the sciences, engineering and maths, the once venerated liberal arts are getting a bad rap from students, employers and governments. Author and liberal arts grad Fareed Zakaria thinks that it is time for pushback by the humanities. For Fareed Zakaria, a broad-based liberal arts education is more important than ever for the future competitiveness of our economies, the health of our democracies and for our very sense of self.

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