The last utopian

SINCE THE PUBLICATION of his 1987 best-seller ''The Last Intellectuals," which lamented the replacement of free-range thinkers penning lively essays in the vernacular by academic leftists churning out jargon-clotted prose, UCLA historian Russell Jacoby has been dismissed in some quarters as a curmudgeon lacking a positive agenda for social change. His most recent book, ''The End of Utopia" (1999), which ... (Full article: 538 words)

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