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FeaturesMay 2005 Retaking the university: a battle plan On some measures for restoring the American university to its founding principles. After the Vietnam War, a lot of us didn’t just crawl back into our literary cubicles; we stepped into academic positions. With the war over, our visibility was lost, and it seemed for a while—to the unobservant—that we had disappeared. Now we have tenure, and the work of reshaping the universities has begun in earnest. There is a tide in the affairs of men, The old Marxist strategy of “increasing the contradictions”—a strategy according to which the worse t ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 23 May 2005, on page 4 Copyright © 2009 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Retaking-the-university--a-battle-plan-1319
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