Thanks for your comments. You indeed make a couple of good points which deserve a response.
First, I don't think white conservatives abandoned the academic world so much as they were driven out by affirmative action which was used by leftist academics to actively discriminate against them in hiring, and career advancement. Not only did le…
Thanks for your comments. You indeed make a couple of good points which deserve a response.
First, I don't think white conservatives abandoned the academic world so much as they were driven out by affirmative action which was used by leftist academics to actively discriminate against them in hiring, and career advancement. Not only did leftist academics actively seek women and minority applicants to hire, but they tailored the academic openings to fields most likely to appeal to the favored groups, i.e. black history, women's literature, LGBTQ+infinity, and excluded fields most likely to appeal to white men such as military and diplomatic history, European political history, European civilization, and literature, and economic history. Given shrinking budgets and a surfeit of applicants, it was easy to screen out the disfavored straight, white, non-Marxist, men.
Now that the Supreme Court has, at last struck down such policies in college admissions, if not in hiring, it should open the way to legal action that should, at least in theory, reduce these practices for the next generation of scholars.
If you want apolitical, that is honest, research these days, the best way to do that is to get the left wing politics out of budgets, grants, and awards. Insure that money does not flow disproportionately, or at all, to "climate change," "gender studies," and other agenda driven research fields. GOP control of the federal government should enable it to reduce if not eliminate such research.
State legislatures and governors regulate budgets. Red state governors should appoint academically neutral Boards of Regents that in turn should appoint University presidents and chancellors who supervise the curriculum at the college and even department level through supervisory committees. It is exactly such institutions that have created the leftist monopolies on university campuses. The ideological problems we face today are not natural developments like the movement of the tides. They are man made. They can be reversed by men and women who value honest scholarship over ideological indoctrination.
We can't expect conditions to change overnight. After all, it took two or more generations for them to reach the current pass. But much can be done with political will at the state level, given the political will. Private universities are another problem because they are insulated from much potential state action. But even here, over time, as the public begins to recognize the superiority of the state schools over even the vaunted the Ivy League schools, the competition can change the academic landscape. The current scandals at Harvard and Columbia, among others may already be starting to hasten such change.
Thanks for your comments. You indeed make a couple of good points which deserve a response.
First, I don't think white conservatives abandoned the academic world so much as they were driven out by affirmative action which was used by leftist academics to actively discriminate against them in hiring, and career advancement. Not only did leftist academics actively seek women and minority applicants to hire, but they tailored the academic openings to fields most likely to appeal to the favored groups, i.e. black history, women's literature, LGBTQ+infinity, and excluded fields most likely to appeal to white men such as military and diplomatic history, European political history, European civilization, and literature, and economic history. Given shrinking budgets and a surfeit of applicants, it was easy to screen out the disfavored straight, white, non-Marxist, men.
Now that the Supreme Court has, at last struck down such policies in college admissions, if not in hiring, it should open the way to legal action that should, at least in theory, reduce these practices for the next generation of scholars.
If you want apolitical, that is honest, research these days, the best way to do that is to get the left wing politics out of budgets, grants, and awards. Insure that money does not flow disproportionately, or at all, to "climate change," "gender studies," and other agenda driven research fields. GOP control of the federal government should enable it to reduce if not eliminate such research.
State legislatures and governors regulate budgets. Red state governors should appoint academically neutral Boards of Regents that in turn should appoint University presidents and chancellors who supervise the curriculum at the college and even department level through supervisory committees. It is exactly such institutions that have created the leftist monopolies on university campuses. The ideological problems we face today are not natural developments like the movement of the tides. They are man made. They can be reversed by men and women who value honest scholarship over ideological indoctrination.
We can't expect conditions to change overnight. After all, it took two or more generations for them to reach the current pass. But much can be done with political will at the state level, given the political will. Private universities are another problem because they are insulated from much potential state action. But even here, over time, as the public begins to recognize the superiority of the state schools over even the vaunted the Ivy League schools, the competition can change the academic landscape. The current scandals at Harvard and Columbia, among others may already be starting to hasten such change.