This book offers a critique of intellectuals in U.S. colleges and universities and the consequent decline in the quality of higher education and suggests solutions. Chapter 1, "Two Intellectual Classes," defines the professional intellectuals; writers and editors who work for the mass media, large publishing houses and think tanks; and…

The new dynamics of the academic marketplace and, in particular, the processes of recruitment are examined in the context of political and legal demand for affirmative action. Described is the way the sociology department at the University of California, Berkeley, carried out its search for three junior faculty in 1975-76. In assessing the…