David Thompson politely examines philosophy professor Jere Surber’s “argument” that academics in the Humanities naturally trend “liberal” because their nuanced understanding of the “complexities of history” — to which they lay claim as a function of having made it all the way through Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness without once stopping to purchase a Diet Coke, presumably — leads them to an obvious intellectual endpoint: progressivism. That progressivism —