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Title: The Hollow Men
Subtitle: Politics and Corruption in Higher Education
Author: Charles J. Sykes
Narrator: Michael Wells
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-24-11
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, Politics
Publisher's Summary:
College curriculums that were once centered on instruction in the classics of Western civilization have become smorgasbords where almost anything qualifies as a course in the liberal arts and where political conformity is enforced by professors. Stanford University, caving in to demands from the Black Student Union (We dont want to read any more dead white guys), removed Homer, Dante, Luther, Darwin, and Freud from its course on Western civilization. At Dartmouth, a professor of womens studies describes the goal of her program as, simply, the reconstruction of reality.
Sykes calls the abandonment of the great books a startling triumph for unreason and shows how American higher education is turning out hollow men and womenapathetic, ignorant, and empty of the civilizational patrimony that should be theirs.
Critic Reviews:
Very convincingly doneSykes sounds the alarm against current academic abuses with much perception, wit, and skill.(Kirkus Reviews)