Robert Boyers on the Tipping Point of Today's Culture Wars
The Author of The Tyranny of Virtue on the Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan
“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.”
In this episode of The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan, Robert Boyers joins Mitchell to discuss his latest book, The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, The Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies, out now from Scribner.
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This episode of The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan was recorded at Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida. Subscribe now on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever else you find your podcasts!
Robert Boyers is editor of Salmagundi, professor of English at Skidmore College, and director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute. He is the author of ten previous books and the editor of a dozen others. He writes often for such magazines as Harper’s, The New Republic, The Nation, Yale Review, and Granta.
The Literary Life
Mitchell Kaplan has been a bookseller and has owned the independent bookstores Books & Books for over 35 years. Enter the Literary Life where every week you’ll hear candid conversations with Mitchell and his guests, including Dave Cullen, Min Jin Lee, Lisa Lucas, Tayari Jones, Tina Brown, and Pete Souza.
