Contents -- Preface: Connections -- PART I INTELLECT -- 1 The Rise of the Postmodern Intellectual -- 2 The Socially Conscious University -- PART II SCHOOLING -- 3 The Education of Diane Ravitch -- 4 The Politics of School Reform -- 5 The Politics of National Standards -- 6 The Post- Millennium Blues: Is It "The End of Knowledge," Too? -- 7 A Teacher's Legacy -- PART III CULTURE -- 8 Arts and Education -- 9 His Greatest Paintings Produce a "SpiritualCalm"-One That Jackson Pollock Was Never Able to Share -- 10 A Postmodern Jesus -- 11 Reflections on a Modernist Canon -- Bibliography -- Index.