The Assault on American Excellence

In "The Assault on American Excellence" , Anthony Kronman, the former dean of Yale Law School, argues against academia's alarming lurch towards egalitarianism and makes the case that higher education must again prioritize individual excellence in order to preserve our democratic project. RealClearBooks recently interviewed Kronman on what has gone so wrong in education and the humanities, and why, perhaps, "aristocracy" is not such a bad word.