David Bromwich is a professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking (Yale University Press, 1992).
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The Review
Education, like elections, depends on the assumption that people can be convinced.
The Review
No other idea from the humanities had so vast, if murky, an influence.
The Review
Students are leading the assault on free speech — and faculty members and administrators are enabling them.
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During the months that I have spent completing this book, public interest in the subject of campus politics grew at an extraordinary clip. ... A question now naturally arises: What accounts for the stir of interest outside the academy? There is a parallel and less obvious question to ask of persons…