Over the last 40 years, most American colleges have been colonized by ideology masquerading as academic disciplines — courses, majors, even degree programs that aren’t about conveying knowledge, but instead about conveying professors’ animosities. A relative latecomer to this parade is “Men’s Studies.” In today’s Martin Center article, Bruce Bawer takes a look at this phenomenon, specifically at his alma mater, Stony Brook U., which established a Men’s Studies Center several years ago.

Bawer finds that this Center is dominated by militant feminists and some men who have joined in with the male bashing. “In sum,” he writes, “it is an ideological rather than a scholarly project.”

How so?

The center has held several seminars, among them a talk about “the need for further regulation on pornography” in the European Union. It has sponsored a white paper, “Men as Allies in Preventing Violence against Women,” in which Bob Pease lays down the law: men should take part in such violence prevention, but because of their “dominance and privilege and . . . structural gender inequalities,” they should play only “a supporting role . . . under women’s leadership” rather than seeking to be “leaders or equal partners.”

On the Center’s blog, you find plenty of whining about “toxic masculinity” and how awful America is because angry men elected Trump.

And the contagion is spreading at Stony Brook, as the school is set to create a Master’s program in Men’s Studies. Just what we need — more degreed academics imbued with seething feminist ideas on the need to reshape men.

Bawer concludes, “All of that does nothing but degrade the academic standing of Stony Brook University and waste the money of New York taxpayers.” Absolutely right; that’s how the Left operates.