With war just three weeks away, Saddam Hussein got only a little box at the top of the cover. Apparently the “New Hitler” wasn’t as juicy a story as the incipient totalitarianism of literature professors. Both sides of the controversy claimed conspiracy: for the right, there was a concerted effort by left-wing academics to undermine the basis of Western civilization; for the left, the assault on higher ed was a carefully coordinated media campaign orchestrated and funded by a network of conservative think tanks and foundations.
