Universities As Liberal Utopias

Robert Tracinski has a good article for RealClearPolitics on the question of why college students tend to vote for liberals. I think you'll enjoy his analysis, it parallels what I saw in 4+ decades in the college/university environment as an undergraduate, graduate student, and professor.

Tracinski notes that students supposedly seek independence, while they are economically dependent. In fact the university environment takes care of students while allowing them almost unlimited freedom in their personal lives. This quote sums it up:

No one pokes into your personal life or asks too many questions about who you’re sleeping with, what you’re smoking, or what you do with your free time. Finally, this whole lifestyle is paid for with huge amounts of debt, and it is considered bad form to ask too many questions about how big the debt is or how you’re ever going to pay it all back.

Does any of this sound familiar? Put it all together, and college life is the contemporary left’s ideal. The universities are liberal utopias.

At least from the undergraduate student's perspective.