What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts?

Described as one of the 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America by right-wing critic David Horowitz Michael Berube has become a leading liberal voice in the ongoing culture wars. This smooth and swift read (New Criterion) offers a definitive rebuttal of conservative activists' most incendiary claims about American universities and in the process makes a supple case for liberalism itself. An important polemic as well as a clear-eyed occasionally quite humorous account of the joys and frustrations of running a college classroom (New York Observer) this book is required reading for anyone concerned about the political climate on and off campus.