Fear And Loathing In Academia
It seems that neocon strategists have been hard at work on a new project: to use the left-leaning political biases of most university faculty members as evidence that liberal indoctrination of students is occurring at these institutions. As it turns out, graduating from college actually correlates with conservative, not liberal, political affiliation. The entire notion that left-leaning professors need to be replaced by right-leaning ones is a solution in search of a problem – another deliberate, politically motivated deception by those on the far right. A recent editorial in the (conservative) Wall Street Journal brings the issue into the open: http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110009058. Apparently, there is something dangerous afoot – but not from an imagined specter of liberal professorial brainwashing. Imagine this: conservative ideologues are now actually creating traction with an idea to ban instructional content that any student claims to be "offensive....