Stanley Kurtz snarks:
Leftist professors sometimes justify their intellectual monopoly on our universities by claiming that, given conservative control of all three branches of government, the left deserves to hold the academy as its citadel. That was always a silly argument....At any rate, now that the Democrats have taken Congress and conservatives no longer control all three branches, I'm sure all those leftist professors will tenure a bunch of conservative academics and start assigning Burke, Hayek, and Rieff in their classes.
It's possible that UC Santa Cruz is a well-disguised conservative redoubt, but I was assigned a lot of Burke, and a fair bit of Hayek. I read far more Burke, in fact, than I did Rawls. I didn't do much Phillip Rieff, but then, I wasn't a sociologist, and I also wasn't assigned any Daniel Bell.
