Mr. Sykes here continues the free-swinging attack on the modern university that he began in The Hollow Men and earlier books. He takes as a locus classicus of academic corruption Dartmouth College; the only weakness in this show is that Mr. Spengemann, who defends his institution, doesn't speak up more. When he does, the sparks fly. WS: "I don't understand, Charles. On the one hand you say that students ... are told that nothing is more right than anything else, and then in the next breath you tell us that they're being told continually what's right and what's wrong?." CS: "You have hit on one of the paradoxes, which is that the politically correct approach to these issues begins with the idea of deconstruction--the idea that if we can't undermine the state structures we'll undermine the structures of language. We'll tell you that all beliefs are equal.... But the idea is not to leave a blank slate. It is to clear the field for the imposition of often very, very draconian ideological perspectives."