Commentary I am a Conservative. Being conservative has very little to do with the political left or the political right. So let’s extricate conservatism from the left/right polarity and see it for what it really is: an attitude of mind that respects humanity but recognizes its limitations; that cautiously believes in progress but not just in change for change’s sake; and, most controversially, that regards truth as absolute and values it above myth. Conservatives believe that education should be for life. To teach trades and skills and arts alone is not good enough, important as they are. Morality, clarity of thought, analytical skills, efficient communication is, or should be, the basis of any professional training. The so-called liberal arts are the arts appropriate to a free man or woman. The idea is older than that pagan Roman Cicero, though he was among the first to speak of them systematically. After …