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The Lacrosse Case & the Khalidi/Ayres Controversy

By K.C. Johnson

A few years ago, I testified before the Senate Education Committee about the diminution of the academy?s intellectual diversity. I spoke as a registered Democrat, and contended that the issue should concern Democrats as much as Republicans, since neither party has an interest in an academy dominated by race/class/gender groupthink. Indeed, it seemed to me both then and now that the Democrats have much to lose from the current state of affairs in higher education. First of all, Democrats no more than Republicans should want a generation of students trained in ignorance of U.S. political structures and culture. Second, as Emory professor Mark Bauerlein most persuasively has argued, ?when like-minded people deliberate as an organized group, the general opinion shifts toward extreme versions of their common beliefs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on October 07, 2008 (boomark / email).