At Yale, English majors have called for the abolition of the core curriculum:  the Major English Poets, who include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, et al.  Heather Mac Donald and Jay agree that this is a tragedy – and an outrage.  Ms. Mac Donald is particularly well placed to speak about this, because she was an English major at Yale:  and got the good stuff.  Students today ought not to be deprived of it – by themselves or others.

This is the topic of an impassioned, Englishy, musicky “Q&A.”

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