Here, via Inside Higher Ed, is an interesting analysis of what may about to a death embrace between the postmodern academic left and the Democratic Party. Here’s the concluding paragraph:
If the Democratic Party comes to be dominated by angry ill-informed activists who believe that George Bush is more evil than Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden, it will have a bleak future. It’s time for Democrats, if only out of their own self-interest, to start paying attention to the tragic decline of our college and universities. If they don’t, the party’s future will be in the hands of the acadeaniacs.
Read the whole thing.
I just read the article: A great piece! I think the left’s cause is hopeless but we must continue to "out" them to reduce their influence on our politics and education as much as possible.
Yeah -- and I guess the loony right Florida legislation -- making profs have to shill the loony right notion of so-called intelligent design, how Ronnie Ray Gun won the war - instead of creating Osama Bin Laden and the whole Jihadist fundamentalist notion of death to the west, etc. etc. will lead to the rise of what >>>> China & India running the world while we have a nice dominionist xristian nation.....yeah I can’t wait.