The "Canon Wars" twenty years after "The Closing of The American Mind"

Rachel Donadio takes a look at academia's so-called "Canon Wars" twenty years after Allan Bloom's book about the failings of higher education hit the bestseller lists. There's some good news along with the bad in what, all in all, struck me as a thoughtful and thorough three-page article.

P.S. As of my post time, the article was free to the general public, but since it's in the New York Times, I don't expect that to last very long.