Tenured Radicals: How Politics Corrupted Our Higher Education

Citing examples of specialized constituencies using unconventional approaches to higher education, this controversial study argues that ``yesterday's radical is today's tenured professor or academic dean.'' ``To the debate awakened by Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind and E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy , this sobering assessment is a pointed contribution,'' PW said. (Apr.)