ABSTRACT
For the last few years, the authors have joined many of their colleagues in defending the academy against charges of "political correctness." They still believe that the anti-political correctness assault was and is orchestrated by politically motivated operatives outside higher education who want to turn back the clock to the days of ivy-covered, white male prep schools catering to the American power elite. Ironically, the dogmatism of the right made it less, not more, possible to isolate and criticize dogmatism on the left, for the entire left and much of the middle had been heaped together under the political correctness rubric. Of course, radical pedagogy has no problem construing such resistance as further evidence of complicity in the dominant culture, a response that further exempts the radical teacher from having to criticize his or her own position.
