Volume 40, Number 4 · February 11, 1993
Invasion of the Mind Snatchers
By Alan Ryan
Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking
by David Bromwich
Yale University Press, 257 pp., $30.00
Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education
by Gerald Graff
Norton, 214 pp., $19.95
Community of Learning: The American College and the Liberal Arts Tradition
by Francis Oakley
Oxford University Press, 230 pp., $24.00
Peace of a sort may have broken out in the humanities. Rejoicing would be premature, and there are plenty of unhappy departments of literature around the country, but then there are many unhappy departments of politics and biochemistry, too. The dietary preferences of Socks, the presidential cat, have lately attracted more notice than the Dartmouth Review. Some stars have left the stage. Stanley Fish and Dinesh d'Souza have stopped touring the halls with their 'illiberal education pro and con' show, and William Bennett is silent. The pugnacious Mrs. Cheney has thought better of staying to fight her conservative corner at the National Endowment of the Humanities until her term ends in two years: she leaves as President Clinton arrives after all.
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