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Stanley Fish on higher education: We?re all Conservatives now

By Alliance Alert

Stanley Fish writing at The New York Times / Opinionator: "The left is right to point to the withdrawal of state funds from public universities as precipitating 'the neoliberal rush to privatize and vocationalize all facets of higher education' . . . But the right is right to point out that the faculty who work within these ever-more-pinched spaces are predominantly liberal and have over the years created 'new inter-disciplinary fields whose inspirations were ideological and closely linked to political activism' . . . Each side, then, has its points and some evidence to support them, but what is most interesting is that each looks backwards to the same idealized past and laments the loss of the same values and practices."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on December 21, 2010 (boomark / email).