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Canon fodder.(What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education)(Book review)
Michael Berube What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics & "Bias" in Higher Education. W. W. Norton, 344 pages, $26.95
For many years, Michael Berube has been an outspoken and topical voice in the humanities professoriate. His books cover critical theory, academic employment, and the canon, and he weighs in on current events, academic and political, on a personal blog that has a steady and interactive readership. He's an MLA insider but also a popular writer, contributing to The Nation, The Village Voice, and Dissent. He leapt into the Culture Wars in the early 1990s, and, with regular sallies into campus controversies, his career sets a ...
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