America’s elite universities are finally acknowledging they have problems. Among the most serious: They’re perceived as echo chambers for just one side in the ongoing national conversation about America’s past, present, and future. As Representative Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.), Harvard alumna, writes in her new book Poisoned Ivies, “it simply does not register to many faculty and administrators that their view of the world is wildly to the left of the American mainstream, or that this could be a problem. Yet the left-wing monoculture of the university today has an immiserating effect on intellectual life.”
It won’t be easy to make things right — as the early efforts of Harvard and Yale indicate.
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