Ideological scholarship meets real-life problems and guarantees nothing useful will be done, making entire disciplines close to worthless. Our special feature for this issue is “Incapacity: Enfeebling Higher Education," with essays by Daniel Bonevac, Karen Swallow Prior, J. Scott Kenney, Mohamed Gad-el-Hak and others. 

Fragmenting the Curriculum

Daniel Bonevac

Bonevac documents the disappearance of Western Civilization and other broad interdisciplinary humanities courses, along with the dwindling of traditional survey courses. The result is that college graduates emerge with little knowledge of subjects beyond their majors, and only narrow slices of that to boot.

Books, Articles, and Items of Academic Interest

Peter Wood

Peter sifts through twenty-one new books to provide a guide for which to avoid and what you must read.