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Illiberal Education disappoints because it never delves beneath the surface of its all-too-easy targets. We read the self-important jargon of professors like Fish, but we never understand them. University presidents have uttered public relations bromides for decades; D'Souza reacts as if he is hearing them for the first time. Too young to have lived through the Vietnam era on campus, D'Souza fails to realize that tenured professors with radical views are not solely a postmodernist phenomenon. Like the Broadway theater, liberal education always seems in peril. Luckily for D'Souza, equally constant is the off-campus demand for books direly proclaiming the end of Western Civilization courses as we knew them. Not to worry; Shakespeare will survive.