I was recently on a panel discussing A.I. and the Humanities. My co-panelist advocated for the Humanities as teaching empathy, by which he meant a global perspective. So I took an anti-empathy stance (no surprise there). I did that partly for patriotic reasons, as "global perspectives" typically, and quietly, facilitate the transformation of us from embedded human beings into "individuals" amenable to institutional governance. We can be cast about the economy and the state more readily thereby, with little to no benefit to the far-away people we're supposed to be helping. And the question of the good life and the healthy community? An answer assumed, it is never raised. Besides eroding patriotism, it also guts the core of humanistic education, which is the civilization and discipline of the human mind, traditionally through the seven liberal arts. It teaches us how to think well about the nature of all things, on one hand, and speak well, whether to the community of the learned or to the wider community of one's compatriots, on the other. At the top end, philosophy; at the lower end, rhetoric and poetry. At a time of deep political discord, where people feel neglected by their government, where they believe it serves foreign or special interests rather than their own, restructuring the Humanities along the ends of liberal and civic education seems indispensable. Our politics needs fewer global citizens, that much at least is clear.