From the Academy

As Mr. Irving Kristol points out, what most rebellious students demand by way of university reform is not culture, but anticulture. Real reform and reinvigoration of the higher learning are desperately needed in this land, Lord knows; yet (with some honorable exceptions) that is not at all the sort of change the intemperate student desires.

Finding genuine humane studies and pure science too rigorous for his undisciplined and uninquisitive intellect, the student rebel shrieks “Give Me Relevance!”—by which he means trivia and ephemera requiring no painful thought.