[lbo-talk] Can anyone debunk (or point me to a good debunking of) the idea of liberal hegemony on campus?

[Jeffrey Fisher]

On 6/1/05, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> 
> >Now I'm sure there's all kinds of things wrong with this (that is, the assertion
> >that liberals rule American higher education with a Stalin like grip) but I'm
> >light years removed from the whole grad and post grad groove that I haven't a
> >clue where to start ripping into it.
> >
> The thing is, taking into account "the most dangerous books" list
> published yesterday that what is scholarship or common sense to you
> (Darwin, Mead, Carson, Kinsey, Mill, etc.) is left-wing lunacy to some.
> So, if you take into account that enlightenment ideas are part and
> parcel of a college education, then indeed colleges are run by a radical
> leftist fringe.
> 
> I'm sure the Taliban would agree.
> 
> Joanna

this was basically my thinking, too, that such sweeping comments
really hinge on definitions.

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the religious significance of God, an unfortunate habit has prevailed
of paying to Him metaphysical compliments.

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