A Truthy Critique of American Higher Ed
"Excellent Sheep" enters a conversation that is well worth engaging — if only because public opinion, stoked with Deresiewicz-style fables passing as fact, has the power to do great harm....
Kevin Dettmar is W. M. Keck Professor of English and Director of The Humanities Studio at Pomona College. His cultural criticism has appeared in The New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and other magazines.