February 13, 2009

The New Climate of Timidity on Campuses

By A. LEE FRITSCHLER and BRUCE L.R. SMITH

A persistent criticism of America's universities is that they are highly politicized and dominated by faculty members who indoctrinate students in a leftist or liberal ideology. Some critics have gone so far as to claim that disagreement is not tolerated, and that universities have become some of the most closed-minded institutions in the country.

For our book, with Jeremy D. Mayer, Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities (Brookings Institution Press, 2008), we

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