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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

THE WRONG FIX

Yesterday, on the radio show To the Point, an AAUP person and David Horowitz went back and forth about the Academic Bill of Rights. No one was terribly clear or persuasive, and things only got worse when a couple of con and pro undergraduates joined in.

UD emerged from listening to the thing more convinced than ever that the Bill of Rights is a bad idea. The liberal arts and the social sciences are indeed a monoculture in this country’s universities, and all sorts of dumb things (see especially Cass Sunstein’s “Law of Group Polarization”) follow from that. But you don’t want a bunch of state legislators to fix them.
Posted at: 6/21/2005 09:43:00 AM