Introduction

I. The Meaning of a Majoritarian Society

1. The Three Crises and the Mass Middle Class

2. Declarations of Independence

II. The War on Equality

3. The Discrediting of Social Equality

4. The Market Substitute for Cultural Knowledge

5. From Affirmative Action to the New Economy

6. The Battle for Meritocracy

7. Diversity in the The Age of Pseudointegration

III. Market Substitutes for General Development

8. Facing the Knowledge Managers

9. English's Market Retreat

10. The Costs of Accounting

11. The Problem with Privatization

12. The Failure of Market Measures

13. Hiding the Cultural Contribution

14. The Half-Suffocation of University Reform

IV. The University and its Enemies

15. The Blame-Academia Crowd: Culture War after 9/11

Conclusion: Powers of the One Hundred Percent

Appendix: Flaws of the "Liberal Bias" Campaign

Notes

Index

Christopher Newfield is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.