Main thought is I’d rather have just about anyone else on the planet write about viewpoint diversity in academia, but maybe I’ll be surprised. 
Even though I trust their motives are pure (from their perspectives) bad stuff has resulted when this guy and his ilk started training their particular sights on academia. Talking about this in a keynote tomorrow for the SIU-Carbondale school of education.
I also touch on it in Chapter 11 of Sustainable. Resilient. Free. Many of those who claim to be trying to uphold the values of the academy are serving to tear down the institutions, rather than build them up, and it's primarily in the interest of preserving status quo power.
Maybe I should see "with the effect of preserving status quo power" instead of "in the interest of" because that's fairer to their intent, but the bad results are clear to me. See also: Coddling the American Mind.
Getting sloppy. Forgot to link to Sustainable. Resilient. Free.m which explains how it's the center left/right that has paved the way for the decline in trust in higher ed, rather than propaganda outfits like TPUSA. beltpublishing.com/collections/pr…
TPUSA and their ilk are doing more active damage now, but they wouldn't be able to get so much traction without seemingly fair-minded types making sure we know how messed up things are in the old academy.
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