The Politically Correct University
Problems, Scope, and Reforms
By (author) Robert Maranto, Fredrick Hess, Richard Redding Contributions by John Agresto, Stephen H. Balch, Hank Brown, Paul A. Cantor, James W. Ceaser, John B. Cooney, Victor Davis Hanson, Frederick M. Hess, April Kelly-Woessner, Daniel B. Klein, S Robert Lichter, John McWhorter, Anne D. Neal, William O'Donohue, James Piereson, Michael B. Poliakoff, Richard E. Redding, Stanley Rothman, Charlotta Stern, Matther Woessner, Peter Wood
Publication date:
16 October 2009Length of book:
325 pagesPublisher
AEI PressISBN-13: 9780844743172
The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness." — Michael Barone, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Political correctness is one of the primary enemies of freedom of thought in higher education today, undermining our ability to acquire, transmit, and process knowledge. Political correctness limits the variation of ideas by an ideologically driven concern for hue rather than view. This volume is not simply another rant; there are good data here, along with well-crafted, hard-to-ignore logical interpretations and arguments. It is the sort of work that those who adhere to idea-limiting notions of the university will try to trivialize. That alone should make it important reading.