Commentary

Review: Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis in the Humanities, edited by Michael Berube and Cary Nelson

Leonard Kriegel

“The Barber of Civility”

Robert M. Pack

Review: In Defense of Elitism by William A. Henry, III

Sam Pickering

Caffelatte and the Lost Art of Conversation

Sanford Pinsker

The issue at a glance

Gideon Rappaport, Robert L. Boyd and John Dale Dunn

No mincing of words

J. M. Ardini

Race, sex, and class in the canon

Peter F. Neumeyer, Hugh Mercer Curtler and Paul A. Trout

Reviews

Leonard Kriegel and Sam Pickering

Books and articles of academic interest

Gideon Rappaport, Robert L. Boyd and John Dale Dunn

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