Our guests approach the title questions obliquely but profoundly, getting at what liberal education is and who should receive it by talking about how liberal education is done. JA: "One reason to be at almost every moment more on the side of free inquiry than not is that the texts we tend to teach, especially the older texts, tend to be rather countercultural, tend to be rather disconcerting. And I would not want someone to say, 'We're not teaching that warmonger Homer; we're not going to allow that racist Aristotle, and we won't allow that narrow-minded bigot Christ to be in our curriculum.'" WFB: "Well, you're citing examples that make your case rather easy. Suppose somebody were to say: 'You know, when you come down to it, Adolf Hitler had some damned interesting things to say, and under the circumstances, I want to expose all of my students to Mein Kampf and to a body of Nazi literature."