Why Are Universities Dominated By the Left?
by Edward Feser
The hegemony of the Left over the universities is so overwhelming that not even Leftists deny it. Whether the institution is public or private, a community college or an Ivy League campus, you can with absolute confidence predict that the curriculum will be suffused with themes such as:
—capitalism is inherently unjust, dehumanizing, and impoverishing;
—socialism, whatever its practical failures, is motivated by the highest ideals and that its luminaries — especially Marx — have much to teach us;- -globalization hurts the poor of the Third World;
—natural resources are being depleted at an alarming rate and that human industrial activity is an ever-increasing threat to “the environment”;
—most if not all psychological and behavioral differences between men and women are “socially constructed” and that male-female differences in income, representation in various professions, and the like are mostly the result of “sexism”;
—the pathologies of the underclass in the United States are due to racism and that the pathologies of the Third World are due to the lingering effects of colonialism;
—Western civilization is uniquely oppressive, especially to women and “people of color,” and that its products are spiritually inferior to those of non-Western cultures;
—traditional religious belief, especially of the Christian sort, rests on ignorance of modern scientific advances, cannot today be rationally justified, and persists on nothing more than wishful thinking;
—traditional moral scruples, especially regarding sex, also rest on superstition and ignorance and have no rational justification; and so on and on. READ MORE
