Table of Contents

Antecedents * From The Culture of Narcissism Christopher Lasch * The Adversary Culture of Intellectuals Irving Kristol * From The View from Sunset Boulevard Ben Stein * The Fashionable Mind Kennedy Fraser Cultural Politics * The Appearance of AIDS * From Hunger of Memory Richard Rodriguez * From Crime and American Culture James Q. Wilson * The New Porn Wars Jean Bethke Elshtain * Now What? David Brooks * The Culture of Apathy * New Yorkers Growing Angry Over Aggressive Panhandlers Fox Butterfield * Being Black and Feeling Blue Shelby Steele Boomers On The Make * The Mass Market Is Splitting Apart Bruce Steinberg * From Beyond Our Means Alfred L. Malabre Jr. * The Money Society Myron Magnet * From Money and Class in America Lewis H. Lapham * The Last Days of Drexel Burnham Brett Duval Fromson Hot And Cool * R.I.P James Wolcott * Limelight * On First Looking into Emily Posts Etiquette P. J. ORourke * From Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman * Sitcom Eric Bogosian * The Death of Andy Warhol Hilton Kramer * The Literary Brat Pack Bruce Bawer * Forever Young Ronald Steel The House Of Intellect * The Fall of the American Adam C. Vann Woodward * Our Listless Universities Allan Bloom * Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch Jr. * Radicalism for Yuppies Louis Menand * Debating the Humanities at Yale Roger Kimball * Why the West? William J. Bennett * Bennett Misreads Stanfords Classics Stephen R. Graubard * Allan Bloom and E. D. Hirsch: Educational Reform as Tragedy and Farce Helene Moglen * Battle of the Books James Atlas * From The Storm Over the University John Searle The Movement Of Culture * From After Virtue Alasdair MacIntyre * The Worship of Art Tom Wolfe * Ethics Without Virtue Christina Hoff Sommers * Victims All? David Rieff * From Culture Wars James Davison Hunter

About the Author

George T. Sewell is the president of the centre for Education Studies and director of the American Textbook Council in New York City. He is also a senior research associate at Boston University. His articles have appeared in Fortune, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and he is most recently the author of Religion in the Classroom: What the Textbooks Tell Us.