Introduction : the debate and its origins / Paul Berman
The big chill? : interview with Dinesh D'Souza / Dinesh D'Souza and Robert MacNeil
On differences : Modern Language Association presidential address 1990 / Catharine R. Stimpson
The periphery v. the center : the MLA in Chicago / Roger Kimball
The storm over the university / John Searle
Public image limited : political correctness and the media's big lie / Michael Berubé
The value of the canon / Irving Howe
The politics of knowledge / Edward W. Said
Whose canon is it, anway? / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Why de we read? / Katha Pollitt
"Speech codes" on the campus and problems of free speech / Nat Hentoff
Freedom of hate speech / Richard Perry and Patricia Williams
There's no such thing as free speech and it's a good thing, too / Stanley Fish
The statement of the Black Faculty Caucus / Ted Gordon and Wahneema Lubiano.

Radical English / George F. Will
Critics of attempts to democratize the curriculum are waging a campaign to misrepresent the work of responsible professors / Paula Rothenberg
Multiculturalism : e pluribus plures / Diane Ravitch
Multiculturalism : an exchange / Molefi Kete Asante
The prospect before us / Hilton Kramer
P.C. rider / Enrique Fernández
Diverse new world / Cornel West
The challenge for the left / Barbara Ehrenreich.