The Wall Street Journal runs an opinion piece by John Ellis, a prof at UC Santa Cruz. He makes a very well reasoned argument for why funding agencies should demand viewpoint diversity among university faculty.
Perhaps Ellis is conservative, or perhaps he is just a smart progressive. His column is excellent, and not behind the WSJ paywall.
We conservatives were darned scarce when I retired some 20+ years ago, even in the business school which you'd (incorrectly) suppose might be a hotbed of capitalist thought. It has only gotten worse since.
How bad is the campus anti-capitalist bias? Some campuses don't even have a business school, students who want to pursue a career in the private sector major in what is euphemistically called "applied economics." You can almost hear an 18th century upper class Brit sneering that a déclassé person is "in trade," said in much the same tones as claiming they were birthed on a dungheap by a slattern.
Whatever ... in the absence of viewpoint diversity, higher ed will continue to be seen as indoctrination academies serving a discredited ideology.
