Thought police

Russell Jacoby of The Nation shows how the idea of liberal domination at institutions of higher learning is predicated on flawed studies that don't stand up to academic rigor. Not surprising--like many ideas generated by the right, we're expected to accept this notion on faith alone. And while irrationality is completely incongruous with the goals of higher learning, somehow it's acceptable in all three branches government??
By misappropriating progressive values like equal opportunity, Horowitz and his minions are lowering the bar, softening standards of what is considered "scholarly" in order to make way for dogmatic ideologues like themselves on campuses. If a teacher who votes democratic counts as a Trotskyist, anyone "to the left of Attila the Hun" could be implicated in a McCarthyite purging of rational thinkers.