Wilfred M. McClay

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Wilfred M. McClay is Professor of History at Hillsdale College.

He was formerly the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma.

His most recent book is Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (Encounter, 2019).

The Daily Economy8/28/22

What Do We Mean by Liberal Education?

"The mark of a genuinely liberal education is that it aims at instilling a set of paradoxical qualities, which are often quite fiercely at odds with one another: the capacity…

The Daily Economy10/4/21

Has America Lost Its Story?

"A robust civic education, which seeks to impart that 'sense of continuity with generations gone before' of which Dos Passos spoke and begins the process of locating one’s life in…