Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.
I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way.
I am a very big fan of the nation, actually. In Cicero's time, there was this idea that although we were members of the whole world of human beings, we also needed to connect our imaginations to a smaller unit. The smaller unit was something we knew we could live or die for, as Cicero died for the Roman republic.
