February 9, 2007

The Place of Conservative Thought in Intellectual Life

To the Editor:

Mark Bauerlein's thoughtful piece on the tenuous place of conservatives on our campuses ignores an important historical fact ("How Academe Shortchanges Conservative Thinking," The Chronicle Review, December 15). He writes that on the campus, "conservative intellectuals remain stymied. Their relationship to the universities in which they found their calling and to the curriculum and scholarship they studied — that remains tenuous."

Maybe that is so now,

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