The Decline of American Higher Education? A Case Study

The Decline of American Higher Education? A Case Study August 1, 2015

 

Rutgers University: The State University of New Jersey
On the campus of Rutgers University, in New Jersey

 

There’s no question that the American professoriate leans considerably to the left of the American populace that supports it — and sometimes wildly so.

 

Here’s an example of the kind of unfettered lunacy that goes largely unchallenged in some academic subcultures:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/31/nutty-professor-rutgers-teacher-who-said-us-worse-than-isis-has-history-bizarre/?intcmp=hpbt3

 

William F. Buckley’s celebrated career was launched when he published God and Man at Yale, a critique of the politically liberal secularism that reigned at his alma matter.  By today’s standards, though, post-War Yale in the 1940s and 1950s was pro-American and downright conservative.

 

Posted from Victoria, British Columbia

 


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