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 Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, Stuart Taylor, Jr. & KC Johnson (Thomas Dunne Books, September 2007)
| | "In what surely is this year's most revealing, scalding and disturbing book on America's civic culture, the authors demonstrate that the Duke case was symptomatic of the dangerous decay of important institutions - legal, academic, and journalistic... With this meticulous report, the guilty have at last been indicted and convicted."
- George F. Will |
Education's End: Why Our Colleges And Universities Have Given Up On The Meaning Of Life, Anthony Kronman (Yale University Press, September 2007)
| | "In a brilliant, sustained argument that is as forthright, bold, and passionately felt as it is ideologically unclassifiable and original, Anthony Kronman leaps in a bound into the center of America's cultural disputes, not to say cultural wars. Although Kronman's specific area of concern is higher education, his argument will reach far beyond campus walls." - Jonathan Schell |
Indoctrination U. The Left's War Against Academic Freedom, David Horowitz (Encounter Books, March 2007)
| | "Horowitz has to be credited with a rare and important achievement. He has not only documented important problems with our educational system, but has also set out to make needed changes." - Herb Denenberg, The Bulletin |
Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus, Donald Alexander Downs (Cambridge University Press, October 2006)
| | "Puts coercive political correctness under the microscope as no previous book has done, and discovers not only why it is virulent but how to make antibodies. Real intellectual diversity-and thus the American university itself-has no better friend, anywhere, than Donald Downs."
- Jonathan Rauch |
Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogma, Thomas Sowell (Free Press, September 2006)
| | "'The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.' With these words begins a treatise on the failure of American education--elementary, secondary, and college levels--to prepare today's students for the future. All...of the...causes and more are clearly discussed, with some frightening true-life examples, to illustrate that students aren't learning the basics because the basics aren't being taught."
- Library Journal
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Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education, Harry R. Lewis (PublicAffairs, May 2006)
| | "...a biting, scattershot indictment of undergraduate education at America's flagship university."
- Publishers Weekly |
Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More, Derek Bok (Princeton University Press, December 2005)
| | "[Insists] that institutions should put their money where their mouths are and invest in the teachers, teaching, and educational experiences."
- Mary Taylor Huber, Change
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Why Read, Mark Edmundson (Bloomsbury USA, August 2005)
| | "Edmundson's many-faceted argument is forthright, rigorous, and inspiring as he convincingly links literature with hope, and humanism with democracy."
- Booklist |
Choosing The Right College: The Whole Truth About America's Top Colleges, John P. Zmirak (ISI, July 2005)
| | "An indispensable guide to the atmosphere on various college campuses, and the presence or absence of a real curriculum, is a book titled Choosing the Right College. It is head-and shoulders above all the other college guides. Among other things, it tells you which colleges have a real curriculum, rather than a cafeteria of courses, as well as the kind of atmosphere each campus has." - Thomas Sowell, author of Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogma |
Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk, Richard H. Hersh (Palgrave Macmillan, May 2005)
| | "The decline of our once-proud colleges and universities - well documented in this book - is the bitter fruit of our ever-more ineffective K-12 education. This book makes it clear that our nation is still at risk."
- E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, Ross Gregory Douthat (Hyperion, March 2005)
| | "Douthat offers a withering indictment of Harvard's institutional culture, a culture in which the administration (and not just the president), the faculty, and the students have all drifted into self-congratulatory complacency."
- Booklist |
Going Broke By Degree: Why College Costs Too Much, Richard Vedder (AEI Press, June 2004)
| | "The traditional argument for government subsidies is that a college education provides not only the private benefit of a higher income and a more abundant life but also the social benefit of a more productive and educated citizenry. Maybe, but Mr. Vedder ingeniously shows that the states that have spent the most on higher education in the past 25 years have experienced the least economic growth." - The Wall Street Journal |
Faulty Towers: Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education, Roger E. Meiners (Independent Institute, March 2004)
| | "A very sensible, balanced and informed book on the complex problems of governing colleges and universities." - Nathan Glazer
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The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn, Diane Ravitch (Knopf, April 2003)
| | "Ravitch writes with enormous authority and common sense. She shows how priggish, censorious and downright absurd 'the language police' can be, and she does so with furious logic."
- The New York Times |
Diversity, the Invention of a Concept, Peter Wood (Encounter Books, December 2002)
| | "Wood blames the Left for using diversity to undermine democracy and faintly praises the marketplace for trivializing it into a matter of lifestyle choice. But the marketplace is interested in making money off diversity, not quashing it. "We will be left," he sadly concludes his otherwise surprisingly congenial survey, "for a long while still, with the reign of diversity's pasteboard stereotypes."
- Ray Olson, Booklist |
Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much, Ronald Ehrenberg (Harvard University Press, October 2002)
| | "Ronald Ehrenberg provides a concise and compelling explanation of the influence of academic governance processes on rising university expenditures and tuition charges... His book is a rare and insightful primer on the intersection of governance and finance."
- Edward P. St. John
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Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe, Jeffrey Hart (Yale University Press, August 2001)
| | "Hart energetically pursues central Western insights...[with]...dazzling cultural commentary along the way. Abandon all hopelessness ye who enter here."
- Robert Royal, The Weekly Standard |
Bonfire of the Humanities, Victor Davis Hanson and Bruce Thornton (ISI Books, June 2001)
| | "...for those who wish to give the classics a primary place in the education of our youth..."
- Sunday Times |
Humanism Betrayed, Graham Good (McGill-Queen's University Press, May 2001)
| | "An important, excellent work, refreshingly well written...Good is able to avoid so many of the pitfalls on such a complex and controversial problem, producing an important analysis of a crucial, contemporary subject. The ability to present this problem economically, to summarize its intellectual background concisely yet accurately, and to make the whole into an accessible study is admirable."
- David Williams, Department of English, McGill University |
The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy, The Editors of Lingua Franca (Bison Books, September 2000)
A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science, Noretta Koertge (Oxford University Press, February 2000)
| | "A thoughtful, wide-ranging, spirited, and highly informative collection. The sophisticated case for objectivity is fully developed in these expert pages."
- Frederick Crews, author of The Memory Wars (1995) and editor of Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend (1998)
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The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our Past, Keith Windschuttle (Encounter Books, February 2000)
| | "[Windschuttle's] diagnosis of the current malaise in the historical profession is sharp and well worth attention...If we allow history to die, we will lose this precious resource. Keith Windschuttle deserves high praise for opening our eyes to the danger."
- Salon |
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont ( Picador, October 1999)
| | "Although Sokal and Bricmont focus on the abuse and misrepresentation of science by a dozen French intellectuals, their book broaches a much larger topic - the uneasy place of science and understanding of scientific rationality in contemporary culture."
- Thomas Nagel, The New Republic |
The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses, Alan Charles Kors, Harvey A. Silverglate (Harper Paperbacks, October 1999)
| | "The most far-ranging and in-depth report on the appalling state of American higher education."
- Nat Hentoff, columnist and author of Free Speech for Me, but Not for Thee |
Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities, John M. Ellis (Yale University Press, April 1999)
| | "Ellis...goes after the race-gender-class triad of academic political correctness...Ellis's humanist dislike of cant and jargon is well matched with his open-mindedness about the values of literature."
- Kirkus Reviews |
Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education, Roger Kimball (Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, July 1998)
| | "All persons serious about education should see it."
- Allan Bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind |
Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education, Phillip E. Johnson (InterVarsity Press, May 1998)
| | "Johnson asserts that naturalism is an unproved metaphysical assumption, presupposed rather than proved by science. As such, it is essentially a religious position. He feels, therefore, that theism should be allowed a respected place in the debate about the nature of reality, since the conclusion will have far-reaching social consequences?"
- Robert Nixon, MLS, Lafayette, Ind., Library Journal |
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt (The Johns Hopkins University Press, November 1997)
| | "At last, somebody has performed the invaluable service of exploding the pretentions of those who think every equation derived this century undermines the fabric of western thought."
- New Statesman |
Professional Correctness, Stanley Fish (Oxford University Press, January 1996)
| | "Professional Correctness pursues its thesis in crisp, juridical style through a rich range of examples."
- Times Literary Supplement |
Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus, Dinesh D'Souza (Free Press, April 1991)
| | "An informative account that provides a rare combination of tough-minded analysis, principled judgments, thoughtful proposals and a humane sensitivity."
- Eugene Genovese |
Essays on the Closing of the American Mind, edited by Robert Stone (Chicago Review Press, May 1989)
War Against the Intellect, Peter Shaw (University Of Iowa Press, April 1989)
| | "Mr. Shaw's collection of essays presents in a convincing manner a thesis of great importance....Its qualities are many and rare in modern scholarship: lucid writing, at once strong and urbane in assertion; broad documentation and clear reasoning from it; concentration on original points that do not owe their novelty to a mere turning upside down of accepted ideas; full and fair exposition of opposing points of view and due acknowledgment of the limits within which the thesis offered is applicable."
- Jacques Barzun, author of Teacher in America |
Profscam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education, Charles J. Sykes (Regnery Publishing, November 1988)
| | "ProfScam is an incisive and convincing indictment that deserves to be read by anyone concerned about the future of American higher education."
- The New York Times |
The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom (Simon & Schuster, May 1988)
| | "An unparalleled reflection on today's intellectual and moral climate...That rarest of documents, a genuinely profound book."
- Roger Kimball, The New York Times Book Review |
Teacher in America, Jacques Barzun (Liberty Press, March 1981)
The Liberal Imagination, Lionel Trilling (Viking Adult, January 1950)
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