Table of Contents: “…The great tradition dies -- The campus and the country part company -- "A commemcement speech you'll never hear" that the whole world heard -- The dumbing down of the universities -- Reagan's revenge -- Dead, white, male and proud of it -- Turning inward -- Falling behind -- The consumer is always right -- The other choice -- A career concludes, the ostracism commences -- Scholarship makes no difference here -- A time of troubles -- Getting fired -- again -- Restoring reason, renewing rationality -- It's the faculty, stupid!…”