Monday, September 18, 2006

Berube on liberals in academia

The NY Times Magazine ran an editorial piece (reg. required) by Michael Berube about liberals in higher education. Berube has been one of the most outspoken critics of Horowitz and his ilk. This piece, I imagine, fits with the arguments he made in his recently published book.

It goes without saying that I agree with the arguments that Berube is making here and the article is accompanied with a nice chart showing that not much has changed in terms of ideological makeup over the last couple of decades. Professors who identify themselves as moderates have declined, while both left and right have slighly increased.

2 comments:

tony palmeri said...

Berube was on Joy Cardin's WPR show this morning at 6 a.m. I didn't get a chance to listen to it, but the link can be found here:
http://www.wpr.org/ideas/programnotes.cfm

Lake Winneblogo said...

Thanks for the note. I'll have to tune in the webcast.