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Christopher Newfield

Christopher Newfield is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, outgoing president of the Modern Language Association, and Director of Research at the Independent Social Research Foundation in London. His most recent book is The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them.

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Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

Christopher Newfield

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