The Assault on American Excellence

by Anthony Kronman,
Psychology Today, August 15, 2019

In The Assault on American Excellence, Anthony Kronman, the former dean of Yale Law School and author of Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up On The Meaning of Life, addresses three “waves of democratic negation,” motivated by legitimate concerns with social injustice, that, in his judgment, are doing substantial damage to academic culture.