Heather MacDonald Responds To Critics About Literature In Colleges

[From article]
More remarkable are Schuman’s twin beliefs that precious academic theorizing is liberating the “poors,” per some Freirian fantasy, and that the Manhattan Institute is threatened by such a development. It’s hard to imagine a greater sign of how cut off from reality the academy is. Nothing in the critiques of academia, including my own, over the years have even hinted at this absurd class-warfare scenario. Yet Schuman can imagine no motive other than allegedly beleaguered class privilege for lamenting the loss of the scholarly, loving study of great art—perhaps because she and her peers have never engaged in such an activity.

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon0113hm.html

HEATHER MAC DONALD
Nothing More Timeless Than Ignorance
A response to Rebecca Schuman
13 January 2014