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“... promote on teaching merit not publication, restore the canon. In short – whack the professors. Roger Kimball’s book is more thoughtful and more artfully spiteful. The subtitle ‘How politics has corrupted our Higher Education’ locates the rot in evil ideology rather than professors on the take. ‘Has corrupted’ is a significant use of ...”

“... to poison the minds of the young. The academy was overrun by these ‘tenured radicals’ (as Roger Kimball put it in his 1990 book), engaged in the promulgation of an ‘illiberal education’ (Dinesh D’Souza in 1991), dedicated to ‘the closing of the American mind’ (Allan Bloom in 1987). The sense of embattlement is palpable in a recent ...”

“... course by producers of the plays who begin Macbeth with the witches engaged in ballroom dancing. Roger Kimball’s recent writings, including Tenured Radicals, give details of similar, or perhaps one should say more advanced, Shakespearian attitudes in American critical thinking, exemplified in papers about ‘Contemporary Indian Uses of ...”

“... leading Churchillists was convened in Austin, Texas, undoubtedly at the initiative of Professor Wm Roger Louis, whose Kerr Chair of English History and Culture at the University of Texas was one of the two principal sponsors (along with the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library), although the president and staff of the hyper-rich Pennzoil Company and sundry U of T ...”