I was at Notre Dame just a few years ago, and one of the professors there said to me, "You don't know what effect In Defense of Ignorance had. It ripped the whole academic community in half!” I'm glad I wrote the book. I like it, and I still stand by my observations, although I wouldn't write it so violently now. I guess I really am in the Whitman tradition. (Karl Shapiro)

I was at Notre Dame just a few years ago, and one of the professors there said to me, "You don't know what effect In Defense of Ignorance had. It ripped the whole academic community in half!” I'm glad I wrote the book. I like it, and I still stand by my observations, although I wouldn't write it so violently now. I guess I really am in the Whitman tradition.

Karl Shapiro

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