About the Author

Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion and an art critic for the London Spectator. His other books include Lives of the Mind, Experiments Against Reality, and The Long March. He lives in South Norwalk, Connecticut.

Reviews

A stinging account...provokes constant reflection and occasional laughter.
*Roger Shattuck, author of The Banquet Years*

A bravado performance of critical journalism...vivid, amusing, dismaying.
*Newsday*

All persons serious about education should see it.
*Allan Bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind*

A withering critique.
*The Instrumentalist*

Mr. Kimball names his enemies precisely...this book will breed fistfights.
*The New York Times*