Joining me today is the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, the author of Not a Day

Care that Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth and a staunch defender of intellectual

freedom on campus.

Dr. Everett Piper, welcome to the Ruben report.

Thank you for having me, I'm honored to join you today, Dave.

I'm glad to have you because you are writing about and talking about and living many of

the ideas that obviously I focus on here.

Before we get to any of that, though, your other book, your first book, I want to get the

title exactly right because it's just perfect.

The title is Why I'm a Liberal and Other Conservative Ideas.

One of the things that I've been saying lately is that defending my liberal principles

is becoming a conservative position.

And I think that probably sort of puts us in a similar spot.

What does liberalism mean to you?

Why do you consider yourself a liberal?

Well, I would argue that what you're doing right now is the historic definition of classical

liberalism.

Let's go back to the founding of the Liberal Arts Institution.

Let's just say Oxford 1,000 years ago.

Why was a liberal arts academy established?

It was to educate a free man, a free woman, a free culture, a free church, a free people.

It was an education in liberty, an education in freedom.

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