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The state of the American university, frozen in time

Philadelphia Inquirer - Book Review

March 14, 2010

In The Marketplace of Ideas, Louis Menand, the eminent Harvard professor and New Yorker writer, explores the state of the American university by comparing its present to its past. He focuses primarily on the liberal arts, where, he observes, professors are a paradoxical species. They are driven both to reproduce the system and to critique and even oppose it. That paradox ensures that the same institutional questions get asked again and again, leading to the same sorts of solutions.

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