As someone who frequently generalizes about the modern academy — for the most part, it has become a bastion of mediocre groupthink and anti-intellectualism — I should probably point out examples of academics who have not succumbed to institutionalized leftism that has rendered much of contemporary scholarship nothing more than politically-motivated pablum.
Here is one such example.
Were it that this were the rule rather than the exception.
It is sad that common sense is the exception and not the rule, but good call by George Masoon’s administration on this one.
It’s just that simple. Or, it should be.
Young Apprentice may now consider GMU as a potential institution for her training in the Dark Arts.
[T]he modern academy …has become a bastion of mediocre groupthink and anti-intellectualism… succumb[ing] to [an]institutionalized leftism that has rendered much of contemporary scholarship nothing more than politically-motivated pablum.*
Has become? Seems to me more like it always has been. (Well, at least since the post-WWII era.) Otherwise Barzun wouldn’t have felt the need to write this.
*That’s not quote rape, by the way. That’s roughly sexing a quote.