Over at The Weekly Standard, Mark Bauerlein has written a good review, entitled, “Forbidden City,” of what looks to be good book about the liberal stranglehold over academia by one Neil Gross .
Bauerlein shows us that Gross, a liberal sociologist who has written a book on Richard Rorty, establishes better than most have the extent of liberal dominance over institutions of higher learning.
But Bauerlein’s real accomplishment is his final sentence, which says it all:
When Bill O’Reilly and John Stossel discussed affirmative action for conservative professors, as they did this past December, did they believe that it would inspire more 22-year-olds on the right to apply for graduate study in Princeton’s English department, which tells prospective students that “we offer a wide range of theoretical specializations in fields such as feminist theory, gender studies, psychoanalysis, Marxism, New Historicism, environmental studies, political and social theory, and cultural studies”?
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