 | Tenured Radicals, Revised: How Politics has Corrupted our Higher Education by Roger Kimball
Buy used from: $2.12 One of the first and perhaps the best on the subject.
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 | Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays by Camille Paglia
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $0.01 Camille Paglia is essential: funny, provocative, and very smart.
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 | Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women by Christina Hoff-Sommers
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.01 Gripping and eyebrow-raising book. You won't regret reading it.
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 | Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America (Oxford American Lectures) by Robert Hughes
Buy new: $35.00 / Used from: $0.01 Very readable, very persuasive. One of the top four on the subject.
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 | The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art by Roger Kimball
Buy new: $20.76 / Used from: $2.00 Kimball is one of America's best intellectuals. A searing, brilliant work.
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 | The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn by Diane Ravitch
Buy used from: $0.01 Anyone interested in education should read this.
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 | The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses by Alan Charles Kors
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.58 This stuff would be funny if it weren't so frightening. (Actually, it's still funny.)
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 | The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds by Tammy Bruce
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $0.01 Note, it's only a certain control-freak faction of the Left...
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 | Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities by John M. Ellis
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $1.99 The most eloquent and powerful book on how the study of English has been destroyed.
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 | Debating P.C.: The Controversy over Political Correctness on College Campuses by Paul Berman
Buy new: $19.00 / Used from: $1.25 Contains some apologist essays, but some fine ones too - like that by Irving Howe.
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 | A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science
Buy new: $36.00 / Used from: $19.95 Cultural studies "scholars" on science are so ludicrous they're funny.
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 | Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $7.00 ditto
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 | Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross
Buy new: $22.50 / Used from: $12.00 and again
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 | The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy by The Editors of Lingua Franca
Buy new: $20.47 / Used from: $6.15 If you don't know about the Sokal hoax, you should: a crucial insight into the "research" done by cultural studies academics.
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 | What's Happened to the Humanities?
Buy new: $39.95 / Used from: $0.07 A few good essays: Donoghue compares a cultural studies approach to Macbeth to a more classical aesthetic one - and shows up what rubbish feminist scholarship largely is.
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 | The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control by Hilton Kramer
Buy new: $16.90 / Used from: $1.98 Provocative but persuasive of articles.
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 | The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our Past by Keith Windschuttle
Buy used from: $9.95 The 'History' version of "Literature Lost" (see above).
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 | Killing the Spirit by Page Smith
Buy used from: $0.01 More generally about academe and scholarship, an essential read.
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 | Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Perishing, and the Eclipse of Scholarship by Lindsay Waters
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $4.78 A searing book. Doesn't overtly discuss PC and CS, but if you read between the lines...
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 | Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America (Policy Papers (Washington Institute for Near East Policy), No. 58.) by Martin S. Kramer
Buy new: $16.96 / Used from: $3.97 Containing one of the best pieces written about Edward Said, this book is as readable as it is scholarly. And it's one of the most essential books of the early 2000s.
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| Political Correctness: The Cloning of the American Mind by David Thibodaux
Buy used from: $0.37 Note: Thibodaux has written a sequel caled "Beyond Political Correctness: Are There Limits to This Lunacy?"
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 | Against Deconstruction by John Martin Ellis
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $1.93 Another Ellis.
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 | Death by Journalism: One Teacher's Fateful Encounter With Political Correctness by Jerry Bledsoe
Buy new: $19.96 / Used from: $0.06 Interesting and worrying.
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 | Biology at Work: Rethinking Sexual Equality (The Rutgers Series in Human Evolution) by Kingsley R. Browne
Buy new: $28.95 / Used from: $6.74 A brilliant book. A bit obscure, but if you're interested in evolutionary psychology or critiques of reductionist feminism, this is about as good as it gets.
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 | Conversations with Pauline Kael (Literary Conversations Series)
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $14.50 The antidote: aesthetics is the answer, and noone is a better read than film critic Pauline Kael. (Although Terry Southern's "Blue Movie" is the other option.)
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