After reading Michael Berube' s " reply to academe's conservative critics" and the numerous reviews and blog postings that appeared shortly after the publication of What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?, I confess to some trepidation in writing a review of it for symploke. First, because so much of the waterfront has been covered already. Second and contrarily, because reaction to the book had led in so many directions that I feel as if I am witness to well an accident in a kitchen