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MUST READS: BOOKS


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Academic Studies

A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science, Noretta Koertge (Oxford University Press, February 2000)

College Athletics

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)

Core Studies

Education's End: Why Our Colleges And Universities Have Given Up On The Meaning Of Life, Anthony Kronman (Yale University Press, September 2007)

Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogma, Thomas Sowell (Free Press, September 2006)

Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education, Harry R. Lewis (PublicAffairs, May 2006)

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)

Why Read, Mark Edmundson (Bloomsbury USA, August 2005)

Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe, Jeffrey Hart (Yale University Press, August 2001)

Bonfire of the Humanities, Victor Davis Hanson and Bruce Thornton (ISI Books, June 2001)

Essays on the Closing of the American Mind, edited by Robert Stone (Chicago Review Press, May 1989)

The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom (Simon & Schuster, May 1988)

Costs and Tuition

Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk, Richard H. Hersh (Palgrave Macmillan, May 2005)

Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, Ross Gregory Douthat (Hyperion, March 2005)

Going Broke By Degree: Why College Costs Too Much, Richard Vedder (AEI Press, June 2004)

Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much, Ronald Ehrenberg (Harvard University Press, October 2002)

Curriculum

Education's End: Why Our Colleges And Universities Have Given Up On The Meaning Of Life, Anthony Kronman (Yale University Press, September 2007)

Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogma, Thomas Sowell (Free Press, September 2006)

Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education, Harry R. Lewis (PublicAffairs, May 2006)

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)

Why Read, Mark Edmundson (Bloomsbury USA, August 2005)

Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk, Richard H. Hersh (Palgrave Macmillan, May 2005)

Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe, Jeffrey Hart (Yale University Press, August 2001)

Bonfire of the Humanities, Victor Davis Hanson and Bruce Thornton (ISI Books, June 2001)

Humanism Betrayed, Graham Good (McGill-Queen's University Press, May 2001)

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)

The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our Past, Keith Windschuttle (Encounter Books, February 2000)

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont ( Picador, October 1999)

Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities, John M. Ellis (Yale University Press, April 1999)

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education, Roger Kimball (Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, July 1998)

Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education, Phillip E. Johnson (InterVarsity Press, May 1998)

Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt (The Johns Hopkins University Press, November 1997)

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)

The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom (Simon & Schuster, May 1988)

Teacher in America, Jacques Barzun (Liberty Press, March 1981)

Diversity

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)

Diversity, the Invention of a Concept, Peter Wood (Encounter Books, December 2002)

Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus, Dinesh D'Souza (Free Press, April 1991)

Free Speech

Indoctrination U. The Left's War Against Academic Freedom, David Horowitz (Encounter Books, March 2007)

Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus, Donald Alexander Downs (Cambridge University Press, October 2006)

The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn, Diane Ravitch (Knopf, April 2003)

The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses, Alan Charles Kors, Harvey A. Silverglate (Harper Paperbacks, October 1999)

Gender Studies

Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus, Dinesh D'Souza (Free Press, April 1991)

Miscellaneous

The Liberal Imagination, Lionel Trilling (Viking Adult, January 1950)

Politics

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)

Education's End: Why Our Colleges And Universities Have Given Up On The Meaning Of Life, Anthony Kronman (Yale University Press, September 2007)

Indoctrination U. The Left's War Against Academic Freedom, David Horowitz (Encounter Books, March 2007)

Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogma, Thomas Sowell (Free Press, September 2006)

Bonfire of the Humanities, Victor Davis Hanson and Bruce Thornton (ISI Books, June 2001)

The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses, Alan Charles Kors, Harvey A. Silverglate (Harper Paperbacks, October 1999)

Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities, John M. Ellis (Yale University Press, April 1999)

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education, Roger Kimball (Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, July 1998)

Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt (The Johns Hopkins University Press, November 1997)

Professional Correctness, Stanley Fish (Oxford University Press, January 1996)

Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus, Dinesh D'Souza (Free Press, April 1991)

War Against the Intellect, Peter Shaw (University Of Iowa Press, April 1989)

Professors and Tenure

Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education, Harry R. Lewis (PublicAffairs, May 2006)

Faulty Towers: Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education, Roger E. Meiners (Independent Institute, March 2004)

Professional Correctness, Stanley Fish (Oxford University Press, January 1996)

Profscam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education, Charles J. Sykes (Regnery Publishing, November 1988)

Quotas and Preferences

Diversity, the Invention of a Concept, Peter Wood (Encounter Books, December 2002)

Trustees and Alumni

Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, Ross Gregory Douthat (Hyperion, March 2005)

 

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