Cultivating Humanity

Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.

The debate over multiculturalism is the latest battle in the thirty-year Cultural War that has gripped American society. Much of this controversy is centered on the country's campuses where arguments over traditional versus modern curricula are fierce. University of Chicago Professor Martha Nussbaum canvassed scores of colleges and universities nationwide to provide an illuminating report on the approach many school are taking to forming a generation of world citizens.