The American right has spent years portraying colleges and universities as ideological factories where liberal professors indoctrinate defenseless students. In the MAGA version of the story, higher education has been captured by radicals, communists and cultural revolutionaries determined to destroy traditional American values.
Robert Jensen does not accept that caricature. But he also does not believe professors and university administrators should dismiss every criticism of academic conformity simply because it comes from the right.
Jensen, a retired professor from the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin, has spent decades teaching, writing and challenging conventional wisdom—including the conventional wisdom of people who largely share his left-wing politics. To read the full article, click here.
