Marilyn Friedman is associate professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Jan Narveson is professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo.

Two prominent philosophers here engage in a forthright debate over some of the centrally disputed topics in the political correctness controversy now taking place on college campuses across the nation, including feminism, campus speech codes, the western canon, and the nature of truth. Friedman and Narveson conclude the volume with direct replies to each other's positions.