I was at Notre Dame just a few years ago, and one of the professors there said to me, You don't know what effect In Defense of Ignorance had. It ripped the whole academic community in half! I'm glad I wrote the book. I like it, and I still stand by my observations, although I wouldn't write it so violently now. I guess I really am in the Whitman tradition.


Paris Review interview (1986)

Karl Shapiro Quotes

I was at Notre Dame just a few years ago, and one of the professors there said to me, You don't know what effect In Defense of Ignorance had. It...

I was at Notre Dame just a few years ago, and one of the professors there said to me, You don't know what effect In Defense of Ignorance had. It...

I was at Notre Dame just a few years ago, and one of the professors there said to me, You don't know what effect In Defense of Ignorance had. It...

I was at Notre Dame just a few years ago, and one of the professors there said to me, You don't know what effect In Defense of Ignorance had. It...