What’s the University For?

vol. 2, no. 3 (Fall 2000)

Introduction

The Radicalism of Tradition: Teaching the Liberal Arts in a Managerial Age

Jackson Lears

A Word to the New Humanities Professor

Mark Edmundson

Intellectuals and Their Discontents

Russell Jacoby

Two Cheers for the Argument Culture

Gerald Graff

The University and Its Discontents

Julie A. Reuben

The Incoherent University

George Marsden

The Moral Purposes of the University: An Exchange

Richard Rorty, Julie A. Reuben, and George Marsden

The University in Question: An Interview with Martha Nussbaum

The Higher Learning in America: Five Views of Its Present State and How It Got That Way

Carl Trindle

The University: A Bibliographic Essay

Steven Jones