Jeff Jacoby picks up on a theme that I’ve also been on lately in a piece he calls “Intellectual diversity? not on campus”.
The left-wing takeover of American universities is an old story. As far back as the 1930s, Irving Kristol recalled in “Memoirs of a Trotskyist,” City College of New York was so radical that “if there were any Republicans at City—and there must have been some—I never met them, or even heard of their existence.” Soon the virus had spread to the nation’s most elite institutions. In 1951, William F. Buckley Jr. created a sensation with “God and Man at Yale,” which documented the socialist and atheist worldview that even then prevailed in the classrooms of the Ivy League institution he had just graduated from.
Today, campus leftism is not merely prevalent. It is radical, aggressive, and deeply intolerant, as another newly-minted graduate of another prominent university—Ben Shapiro of UCLA—shows in “Brainwashed,” a recent best-seller. “Under higher education’s facade of objectivity,” Shapiro writes, “lies a grave and overpowering bias”—a charge he backs up with example after freakish example of academics going to ideological extremes.
No surprise, then, that when researchers checked the voter registration of humanities and social-science instructors at 19 universities, they discovered a whopping political imbalance. The results, published in The American Enterprise in 2002, made it clear that for all the talk of diversity in higher education, ideological diversity in the modern college faculty is mostly nonexistent.
Also see ‘A Chill in the Classroom’: More liberal indoctrination uncovered which I posted yesterday.
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