Ralph Lukens at Cliopatria continues to update his links on L'Affaire Churchill. That's how I came to read this terrific entry in D.B. Light's blog, Light Seeking Light. As Light documents, the right is using Churchill's "little Eichmann" comment to go after those in academe more generally. This is important stuff. Assuming you think academe is important.
Thanks for the link. I've been browsing your blog. Lots of interesting and well-considered stuff here. In fact, I'm going to post a link to it now.
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After following the discussion of political bias in the Humanities on college campuses, I think that the issue of lack of political diversity on campus has deeper roots than people hiring like=minded individuals for their departments. The argument that relatively few people on the right side of the political spectrum are willing to spend years on the chance to make low-average salaries for their level of education certainly needs to be examined. I think maybe the question should be what causes the perceived leftward political slant of certain departments.
ReplyDeleteIn my own education I've not seen a horrendous tilt either way - even after both undergrad and graduate work at the University of South Florida (which was called a throwback to the 1960s in the all of the college prep literature of the late 1980s) and doing my M.A. as Sam Houston State University. Maybe I've just been blessed with generally moderate faculty - with a couple of notable exceptions.
Some of this leaves me wondering whether there's really a huge imbalance, or if we just notice the extreme left faculty members because of their radical opinions?
Chris
chris@essentialliberties.com