ABSTRACT
Scholarship distinguishes universities from high schools, on the one hand, and from research institutes, on the other. Scholarship expressed through publication and through teaching forms the heart of the university. Education takes two forms, and both are necessary for scholarship. The first is the acquisition of knowledge, meaning both the facts and their understanding. The second is an apprenticeship to those who teach the work by doing it. The new humanities have run out of energy, as the potential audience of blacks to study black studies, and Jews for Jewish studies, reaches a natural limit. For reasons that vastly transcend the academic catastrophe brought upon black studies by black academicians, the change from the old canon to the new, realized a nightmare: The utter scandalizing of the academy. The very mechanisms developed to widen cultural horizons are being gutted to make room for the ill-defined goal of multiculturalism.
