"A sensitive, sensible, and compelling account of American education at its best."--"Philadelphia Inquirer" Described as one of the "101 Most Dangerous Academics in America" by right-wing critic David Horowitz, Michael Berube has become a leading liberal voice in the ongoing culture wars. This "smooth and swift read" ("New Criterion") offers a definitive rebuttal of conservative activists' most incendiary claims about American universities, and in the process makes a supple case for liberalism itself. An important polemic as well as "a clear-eyed, occasionally quite humorous account of the joys and frustrations of running a college classroom" ("New York Observer"), this book is required reading for anyone concerned about the political climate on and off campus.