Over at reason Magazine, Nick Gillespie asks “what good are the arts?” As an English major in college (well, English and history), I used the time as an excuse to read books that I enjoyed, and more than once had to endure silly Marxist lit crit teachers and students, who sought to fit every book into a predefined model.
(yeah, I realize this is from April. I keep checking reason’s front page to see if they posted an essay on children’s literature that ran in the print magazine a few months ago, but nada.)