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Louis Menand
English Professor, Harvard University
Louis Menand is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University. His areas of interest include 19th and 20th century cultural history. His books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Metaphysical Club" (2001), "Pragmatism: A Reader" (1996), and "Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context" (1987). His most recent volume, "The Marketplace of Ideas," was published by W. W. Norton & Co. in 2010. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker and contributes frequently to The New York Review of Books and other publications.
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The “Marketplace of Ideas” author suggests steps American colleges can take to become more ideologically diverse.
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The “problem of general education” haunts any college trying to design a core curriculum, but standardizing across schools is a poor solution.
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Whether we’re in postmodernism, post-postmodernism, or some other phase, one thing we’re not in is cultural decline.
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The kind of literary criticism that Lionel Trilling practiced, which assumed that national literatures reflected deep national values, is dead now.
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The audience that the New Yorker critic has in mind is “somebody who’s like yourself, but in a completely different discipline.”
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A conversation with the Harvard University English professor.