“I’ve been thinking about what a lot of people refer to as the culture wars…for the last thirty years. A few years ago I felt we had reached a tipping point in our colleges and universities and to some degree in the culture and I had to call this out and describe it,” Robert Boyers on why the time is right for his new book, The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, The Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies. Boyers is editor of Salamangundi, professor of English at Skidmore College and director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute. Recorded at Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida.

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