I read the New York Review of Books. Every single f***ing article about "academic freedom" or "the crisis of the university" seems to be contractually obligated to include a paragraph (or more!) about how the university has become too ideologically homogenous or something similar. Even now!
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Michael Hobbes
David Brooks's lesson from the descent of institutional conservatism into fascism is that we should be nicer to conservatives.
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It would only be surprising if they didn’t.
David Brooks
I've yet to see a conservative "censored" for recommending lower taxes and less regulation. They might get debated about it, but that's not what gets you cancelled.
Journalists today are stuck reporting on false balance and controversy more than reporting objective facts.
https://www.voicesforvaccines.org/toolkits/false-balance-in-media/
In History, the crisis has been a hard turn toward hiring only modern or US historians & abandoning many other fields.
In Classics it's a culture of log rolling - Yale PhDs hiring only Yale PhDs etc
Conservative idiocy is dulling everyone’s senses.
Maybe the elite institutions really are rife with "group think," but the convincing evidence is never produced.
What does it matter if your organic chemistry teacher is a leftist or a neocon?
There’s a reason they don’t like it, and it’s that it debunks their magic book of fables that they cling to and claim is real because goat farmers wrote it centuries/millenia ago.
They’re fucking morons.
they see conservativism as the only true thinking possibl
so WHY aren’t kids FORCED to hear ONLY THAT?