A higher education
by Paul Greenberg, Tribune Content Agency
Sep 12, 2017
3 minutes
The worldwide cataclysm came to be known as the Second World War even though it was really only the second act of the first. It might as well have been called A Tragedy in Two Acts. In 1943, before the war closed with a couple of horrific nuclear explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an historian at Yale named George Pierson conceived, edited and released a report titled "A Planned Experiment in Liberal Education."
According to Justin Zaremby's fine article in the June 2017 issue of The New Criterion, "A
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