Much has changed.....................

 ....................since he wrote these words:

     The culture of repudiation is sometimes referred to (usually dismissively) as 'political correctness'—the assumption being that university gurus are involved in a kind of brain-washing exercise, to ensure that no political view will be transmitted or accepted on campus save those of a liberal-egalitarian kind.  But, interesting though this assumption is, I doubt that it has any real bearing on the cultural phenomenon.  The feminists, gay activists, new historicists, crypto-Marxists, Foucauldians and deconstructionists who thrive in humanities departments do not, as a rule, have much interest in the political view of their students.

-Roger Scruton, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture (1998)