Robert Boyers

Robert Boyers is the author of eleven books, the most recent of which is The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, The Academy and the Hunt for Political Heresies. The book is a combination of memoir and cultural criticism, which draws upon a lifetime as editor (salmagundi magazine), writing program director (the new york state summer writers institute), college professor and frequent contributor to such national magazines as The Nation, Harpers, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The New Republic. Boyers' previous books include a book of short stories, a volume of personal essays on the fate of ideas (including authority, the other, beauty, judgment and fidelity), and several works on the politics of novels and novelists.