“Are the Social Sciences Undergoing a Purity Spiral?”

William F. Buckley Jr. first gained fame with a book about his alma mater, a withering critique entitled God and Man at Yale.

In many respects, matters have only become far, far worse since those palmy days after World War Two.

The trend described here ought to concern not only people engaged in the social sciences, but people involved with academia in general — including students and parents of students, of course, but perhaps also government officials, taxpayers, and (dare I say it?) tithe payers, as well:

http://quillette.com/2017/07/06/social-sciences-undergoing-purity-spiral/