THE most depressing aspect of many campus disorders is what they reveal not about students but about professors. The academics are so divided that some are resisting desirable reforms while others are joining student rebels in disrupting their own universities. Worse, the faculty split reflects a division that afflicts intellectuals far beyond the campus. Never before have U.S. intellectuals enjoyed such affluence and celebrity, yet never before have they so vilified one another for "complicity with the Establishment." To hear some intellectuals tell it, the U.S. has entered a new period of anti-intellectualism—fomented...
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