The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies

Ten linked essays from public intellectual and professor Robert Boyers that elegantly and fiercely address the most relevant and controversial ideas of the day - from identity and privilege to appropriation and diversity - and advocates for loosening the straightjacket of the new liberal orthodoxy.

Written from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a lifetime as a writer, editor, and college teacher, Robert Boyers’ s book is a precise and nuanced insider’s look at shifts in American culture - most especially in the American academy - that so many people find alarming.