Monday, March 27, 2017

An assault on (intellectual) diversity........


The burning desire to paint a scarlet letter on the breast of those who fail to observe the officially sanctioned view of things has taken possession of many ostensibly liberal people in academe, which has tended more and more in recent years to resemble what the Yale English professor David Bromwich calls "a church held together by the hunt for heresies."

-Robert Boyers, as culled from this essay

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