Antho­ny T. Kro­n­man served as the dean of Yale Law School from 1994 – 2004, and has taught at the uni­ver­si­ty for forty years. He is the author or coau­thor of five books, includ­ing The Assault on Amer­i­can Excel­lence; Education’s End: Why Our Col­leges and Uni­ver­si­ties Have Giv­en Up on the Mean­ing of Life; and Con­fes­sions of a Born-Again Pagan.