Vincent J. Cannato reviews a new book on higher ed by a former dean at Harvard:

…many of his conclusions apply to the rest of American higher education. Mr. Lewis finds American universities “soulless” and argues that they rarely speak as “proponents of high ideals for future American leaders.” He bluntly states that Harvard “has lost, indeed willingly surrendered, its moral authority to shape the souls of its students. . . . Harvard articulates no ideals of what it means to be a good person.”