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Monday, October 23, 2006

Katha Pollitt Goes After
The Trouble With Diversity
in The Nation




'Maybe economic reality doesn't get much airtime in the University of Illinois-Chicago's English department, which [Walter Benn] Michaels chairs (he gleefully bemoans his $175,000 annual salary), but poverty, inequality and class are major objects of attention in sociology, economics, public policy, ed schools and investigative journalism -- to say nothing of the pages of The Nation. Michaels isn't the loner he pretends to be.

...[Michaels] complains about being one of the highest-paid English professors in the country and ... goes on at some length about his envy of the fabulously wealthy.'