In William Deresiewicz’s “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life,” a senior professor at Yale who also attended the school decades ago as an ...

Writer William Deresiewicz stoked controversy with his criticisms of elite education published in his book “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life” ...

William Deresiewicz sees a crisis in the arts, and he needs you to stop it. Unfortunately, it’s not going to be that simple, because the problem comes from something that is increasingly woven into ...

I was very disappointed to read “‘Excellent Sheep’ Author Returns to Yale to Tend His Flock” (The Chronicle, September 26), which allowed William Deresiewicz to continue to completely mischaracterize ...

Sometimes people who are partly right can do more damage than those who are utterly and obviously wrong. The latter can be easily dismissed; the former can undermine important insights by wrapping ...

William Deresiewicz, author of the controversial column “Don’t Send Your Kids to the Ivy League,” argues in his latest book, “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a ...

William Deresiewicz has thrown a rhetorical Molotov cocktail at the Ivy League in the latest cover story for The New Republic, arguing that America's "system of elite education manufactures young ...

In a piece in the New Republic, William Deresiewicz argues that Ivy League schools “are turning our kids into zombies.” Elite universities, explains the former Yale professor and author of Excellent ...

William Deresiewicz is an under­appreciated essayist and thinker, not to mention a literary critic whose acumen is comparable to James Wood’s. After writing an essay he felt was doomed to obscurity, ...