Here is an essay by Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust. I burst out in laughter when I read the following paragraph:
Universities are meant to be producers not just of knowledge but also of (often inconvenient) doubt. They are creative and unruly places, homes to a polyphony of voices. But at this moment in our history, universities might well ask if they have in fact done enough to raise the deep and unsettling questions necessary to any society.
Has this woman been on a college campus lately? "Polyphony of voices"? Academia is so overwhelmingly progressive in its assumptions that the atmosphere is stifling. It reminds me of a medieval monastery, where nothing of a fundamental nature is questioned. A college campus is the only place in America where you can make a disparaging joke about Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush and know that everyone will laugh.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 