Pooh-Poohing postmodernism.

The following article is reprinted by permission of Spiked Magazine from . [c]Spiked, 2002. Spiked is an online magazine based in London. All citations are from Frederick Crews, Postmodern Pooh (New York: North Point Press, 2001).

The essays that the graduating BAs would submit with their applications were often brilliant. After five or six years of PhD work, the same people would write incomprehensible crap. Where did they learn it? They learned it from us."

Frederick Crews, Emeritus professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley, is telling me ...