ABSTRACT
As the tide of unfavorable comment about American colleges and universities reached new heights, well-known educational leaders and publicists contributed to it by bringing out books that suggested reasons for the rising discontent. Among the best-known among a host of critics who raised the alarm were such commentators as William J. Bennett, President Reagan’s Secretary of Education; Professor Allan Bloom, author of the 1987 best-seller The Closing of the American Mind; and Dinesh D’Souza, whose Illiberal Education (1991) professed to come to the defense of humanism. 1
