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Partisan Review
Special Issue ofFall1993
The Politics of Political Correctness
A symposium with contributions from:
Robert Alter
Brigitte Berger
Robert Brustein
Andrew Delbanco
Morris Dickstein
Eugene Goodheart
Susan Haack
Roger Kimball
Hilton Kramer
Leonard Kriegel
Edith Kurzweil
Mary Lefkowitz
David Lehman
Mark Lilla
Glenn C. Loury
Heather Mac Donald
Steven Marcus
Jerry
L.
Martin
Daphne Merkin
Mark Mirsky
William Phillips
Ronald Radosh
Diane Ravitch
John Searle
David Sidorsky
Fred Siegel
Alan Wolfe
"At its worst, the current fashion of insistently reading for the agenda has led to
classes in literature that are little more than ideological indoctrination sessions."
-Robert Alter
"The combination of unrelenting agitation by feisty though wrongheaded
multiculturalists on the one hand, and the quiescence of a woefully
underprepared and intellectually slothful professoriate on the other, have brought
the university today to the point of self-destruction."
- Brigitte Berger
"The corrupted language that emanates nowadays from our institutions of
culture and intellect expresses at point after point its historic affiliation with the
historic experience of totalitarianism out of which we are still emerging - or
from which, one might more austerely suggest, we have not yet fully emerged."
- Steven Marcus
"The most offensive trait of American academics as a class is their timidity. In
many cases even those who have tenure are unwilling to take controversial
stands."
- John Searle
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