Armed with a variety of totalistic visions and millennial expectations, the radicalized academy has little sympathy either with open discourse or with analytic procedures that fail to guarantee desired conclusions. The organizing principle of radical scholarship inheres in its purpose rather than in its methods or theories. And its purpose is unremitting attack on existing cultural traditions and political and economic institutions. Its most ominous feature is the use of the classroom for the cultivation, of ethnic and class resentments, particularly among minority students entering into higher education for the first time.