TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boyers,Robert
TI  - The tyranny of virtue: identity, the academy, and the hunt for political heresies 
SN  - 9781982127190
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scribner
KW  - Toleration
KW  - Political correctness
KW  - Identity politics
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - United States
KW  - Essays
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Preface --; Privilege for beginners --; The academy as total cultural environment --; Correctness & denial : willing what cannot be willed --; The identity trap --; Hostile & unsafe : ideas & the fear of diversity --; Policing disability --; High anxiety : the attack on appropriation --; Junk thought : the way we live now --; Epilogue : what is to be done?
N2  - "Written from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a lifetime as a writer, editor, and college professor, The Tyranny of Virtue is a "courageous, unsparing, and nuanced to a rare degree" (Mary Gaitskill) insider's look at shifts in American culture--most especially in the American academy--that so many people find alarming.  Part memoir and part polemic, Boyers' collection of essays laments the erosion of standard liberal values, and covers such subjects as tolerance, identity, privilege, appropriation, diversity, and ableism that have turned academic life into a minefield. Why, Robert Boyers asks, are a great many liberals, people who should know better, invested in the drawing up of enemies lists and driven by the conviction that on critical issues no dispute may be tolerated? In stories, anecdotes, and character profiles, a public intellectual and longtime professor takes on those in his own progressive cohort who labor in the grip of a poisonous and illiberal fundamentalism. The end result is a finely tuned work of cultural intervention from the front lines."--
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