August 13, 2004

Lean to the Left, Lean to the Right: Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education

To the Editor:

Donald Lazere invents absurd claims for his opponents ("The Contradictions of Cultural Conservatism in the Assault on American Colleges," The Chronicle Review, July 2). For example, he writes that conservative "culture warriors ... do not dare admit that the greatest detriment to humanistic education is the commercial pressure imposed by corporations." ... Such thinking is common among those who rely on grand conspiracies to explain world events. They know that a

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