About Jeffrey Scheuer
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Critical Thinking Expert
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PRINT BIO: Acclaimed author and freelance writer Jeffrey Scheuer is an information ecosystem expert. Top press professionals and elite educators have sought his insight on media, politics, and — most recently — higher education. He's on a mission to illuminate for society what it means to think critically and live as an educated citizen in a thriving democracy. His new book “Inside the Liberal Arts: Critical Thinking and Citizenship" is the only book to systematically relate the liberal arts to thinking rationally and critically. Scheuer takes liberal arts educators, students, media, and consumers through an exploration of the role of higher education in democracy. Learn more at JeffreyScheuer.com.
BROADCAST BIO: Acclaimed author and freelance writer Jeffrey Scheuer (SAY Shoyer) is an information ecosystem expert. Top press professionals and elite educators have sought his insight on media, politics, and now, higher education. His new book “Inside the Liberal Arts: Critical Thinking and Citizenship" is the only book to systematically relate the liberal arts to thinking rationally and critically. Welcome, Jeffrey. Tell me, what is the role of higher education in democracy?
IN-DEPTH BIO: Acclaimed author and freelance writer Jeffrey Scheuer is an information ecosystem expert. Top press professionals and elite educators have sought Scheuer's insight on media, politics, and — most recently — higher education. He's on a mission to illuminate for society what it means to think critically and live as an educated citizen in a thriving democracy. His new book "Inside the Liberal Arts: Critical Thinking and Citizenship" is the only book to systematically relate the liberal arts to thinking rationally and critically. In under 200 pages, "Inside the Liberal Arts" outlines the history, conceptual core, and critical democratic role of liberal education. Scheuer takes liberal arts educators, students, media, and consumers through an exploration of the role of higher education in democracy.
He graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College and holds two master’s degrees: one in history of political thought from London School of Economics & Political Science, and one in journalism from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He has also completed some graduate work in philosophy at Columbia University.
Scheuer writes mainly about politics, media, history, and education. His first book, The Sound Bite Society (1999) was named a Choice “Outstanding Academic Title.” He is also the author of The Big Picture: Why Democracies Need Journalistic Excellence (2007). He has published essays, articles, reviews and commentary in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and some two dozen other daily newspapers, and has also published in Dissent, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Gettysburg Review, Potomac Review, Wilson Quarterly, Nieman Reports, Philosophy Now, Private Pilot, and elsewhere.
Scheuer is also an amateur photographer, a private pilot with seaplane and tail-dragger ratings, and an antiquarian book collector (see: “The Conscience of a Collector.”) He lives in pre-Civil War houses that he renovated in New York and West Tisbury, MA. Learn more at JeffreyScheuer.com.