Peter Berkowitz has an op-ed of the same title in the Wall Street Journal today (subscription only). A sample:

Harvard’s general education reform will allow students to graduate without ever having read the same books or studied the same material. Students may take away much of interest, but it is the little in common they learn that will be of lasting significance. For they will absorb the implicit teaching of the new college curriculum–same as the old one–that there is nothing in particular that an education person need know.

Berkowitz proceeds to outline the minimum requirements needed: courses in ancient, European and U.S. history; Christian, Jewish, and Islamic religions; classics of European and American literature, etc. But:

It is a mark of the politicization and clutter of our current curriculum that these elementary requirements will strike many faculty and administrators as benighted and onerous. Yet the core I’ve outlined reflects what all successful individuals outside of academia know: Progress depends on mastering the basics.