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The Assault on American Excellence (Hardcover)
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A New York Times Editors' Choice The former dean of Yale Law School
argues that the feverish egalitarianism gripping college campuses
today is out of place at institutions whose job is to prepare
citizens to live in a vibrant democracy. In his tenure at Yale,
Anthony Kronman has watched students march across campus to protest
the names of buildings and seen colleagues resign over emails about
Halloween costumes. He is no stranger to recent confrontations at
American universities. But where many see only the suppression of
free speech, the babying of students, and the drive to bury the
imperfect parts of our history, Kronman recognizes in these
on-campus clashes a threat to our democracy. As Kronman argues in
The Assault on American Excellence, the founders of our nation
learned over three centuries ago that in order for this country to
have a robust democratic government, its citizens have to be
trained to have tough skins, to make up their own minds, and to win
arguments not on the basis of emotion but because their side is
closer to the truth. In other words, to prepare people to choose
good leaders, you need to turn them into smart fighters, people who
can take hits and think clearly so they're not manipulated by
demagogues. Kronman is the first to tie today's campus debates back
to the history of American values, drawing on luminaries like
Alexis de Tocqueville and John Adams to show how these modern
controversies threaten the best of our intellectual traditions. His
tone is warm and optimistic, that of a humanist and a lover of the
humanities who is passionate about educating students capable of
living up to the demands of a thriving democracy. Incisive and
wise, The Assault on American Excellence makes the radical argument
that to graduate as good citizens, college students have to be
tested in a system that isn't wholly focused on being good to them.
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