September 6, 2002

The Editor of 'South Atlantic Quarterly' Challenges the Conventional Wisdom

By SCOTT McLEMEE

At the turn of the last century, the South Atlantic Quarterly tested the limits of "academic liberty" (as it was then called) with a series of essays challenging segregation. It is much harder to get a violent intellectual argument going nowadays. But this fall's special issue of SAQ certainly tries. Titled "Dissent From the Homeland: Essays on September 11," and edited by Stanley Hauerwas and Frank Lentricchia, the issue criticizes American policy from a variety of perspectives

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