Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the debate and its origins / Paul Berman
  • The big chill? : interview with Dinesh D'Souza / Dinesh D'Souza and Robert MacNeil
  • On differences : Modern Language Association presidential address 1990 / Catharine R. Stimpson
  • The periphery v. the center : the MLA in Chicago / Roger Kimball
  • The storm over the university / John Searle
  • Public image limited : political correctness and the media's big lie / Michael Berubâe
  • The value of the canon / Irving Howe
  • The politics of knowledge / Edward W. Said
  • Whose canon is it, anway? / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Why de we read? / Katha Pollitt
  • "Speech codes" on the campus and problems of free speech / Nat Hentoff
  • Freedom of hate speech / Richard Perry and Patricia Williams
  • There's no such thing as free speech and it's a good thing, too / Stanley Fish
  • The statement of the Black Faculty Caucus / Ted Gordon and Wahneema Lubiano.
  • Radical English / George F. Will
  • Critics of attempts to democratize the curriculum are waging a campaign to misrepresent the work of responsible professors / Paula Rothenberg
  • Multiculturalism : e pluribus plures / Diane Ravitch
  • Multiculturalism : an exchange / Molefi Kete Asante
  • The prospect before us / Hilton Kramer
  • P.C. rider / Enrique Fernâandez
  • Diverse new world / Cornel West
  • The challenge for the left / Barbara Ehrenreich.