The centre fights back
Lynn Hunt, 22 July 1993
Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking
by David Bromwich.
Yale, 296 pp., £20, October 1992,0 300 05702 4 Show More
by David Bromwich.
Yale, 296 pp., £20, October 1992,
Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts can Revitalise American Education
by Gerald Graff.
Norton, 224 pp., £13.95, March 1993,0 393 03424 0 Show More
by Gerald Graff.
Norton, 224 pp., £13.95, March 1993,
“... consequences? Bromwich bases most of his analysis of the Right on the writings of George Will and William Bennett, leaders of the ‘reactionary priesthood’ but not exactly intellectual giants. He argues that both clutched so-called traditional values obsessively to their breasts because they believed that only a traditional culture could provide a reliable ... ”