Tenured radicals: how politics has corrupted our higher educationKimball takes educators and institutions to task for what he sees as their complicity in today's educational disarray and their desire to expand the canon of literature to include a wider cultural array |
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Speaking Against the Humanities | 34 |
The October Syndrome | 76 |
The Case of Paul de Man | 96 |
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| Title | Tenured radicals: how politics has corrupted our higher education |
| Author | Roger Kimball |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | HarperPerennial, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0060920491, 9780060920494 |
| Length | 222 pages |
| Subjects | › Education Education / General Education / Higher Education / Philosophy & Social Aspects Education, Higher Education, Higher/ United States Education, Humanistic Education, Humanistic/ United States Politics and education Politics and education/ United States Radicalism |
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