What’s the University For?

Introduction

From the Editors

The Radicalism of Tradition

Jackson Lears

A Word to the New Humanities Professor

Mark Edmundson

Intellectuals and Their Discontents

Russell Jacoby

Two Cheers for the Argument Culture

Gerald Graff

The University and Its Discontents

Julie A. Reuben

The Incoherent University

George Marsden

The Moral Purposes of the University

George Marsden, Richard Rorty, and Julie A. Reuben

The Higher Learning in America

Carl Trindle

The University in Question: An Interview with Martha Nussbaum

The University: A Bibliographic Essay

Steven Jones