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TRUTH, NOT IDEOLOGICAL BALANCE: As the academy grows more stridently left wing, conservatives re?

By Glenn Reynolds

TRUTH, NOT IDEOLOGICAL BALANCE:

As the academy grows more stridently left wing, conservatives respond with calls for ideological affirmative action ? for schools to hire more right-thinking faculty so students encounter intellectual diversity. This is a seductively alluring scheme, and thanks to wealthy donors, it is proliferating.

It is an ill-advised and ultimately anti-intellectual strategy, even in the unlikely event that it succeeds. The academy can not be, nor should it be, an intellectual version of Noah?s Ark.

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Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 17, 2010 (boomark / email).