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Roger Kimball, Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education, 3rd ed. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008)

September 4, 2009
By Kevin R. Kosar
Roger Kimball, Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education, 3rd ed. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008)

The Norm or the Exception? by Kevin R. Kosar, September 4, 2009 I blinked and slipped into a slack-jawed, gob-smacked state.  We thought the passage was baroque but pretty clear. “I sit here, after long weeks with an inward accumulation of material of which I feel the wealth …. My long dusty adventure...
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Fiction: David Lodge, Thinks (2001)

Non-Fiction: Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service, 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition (2010)

Non-Fiction: Christopher Buckley, Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir (2009)

Non-Fiction: Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster (2007)

Fiction: John Le Carre A Most Wanted Man (2008)

Fiction: John Le Carre Our Game (1995)

Fiction: John Le Carre The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)

Fiction: Peter DeVries Into Your Tent I'll Creep (1971)

Fiction: Peter DeVries Peckham's Marbles (1986)

Fiction: Georges Simenon Three Beds in Manhattan (1964)

Fiction: Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day (1988)