In a splendid essay on Pajamas Media, Mary Grabar takes a look at the way most of the academic Left deals with criticism — by saying that since the critics are rubes and McCarthyites, they should just be ignored. The message from the likes of the Modern Language Association is, “We’re the experts and the ones who truly care about the education of young people; the critics have a hidden, anti-intellectual agenda.”

Eventually, this sort of stonewalling boomerangs and undermines the credibility of the people and groups that insist that they’re above reproach.

By the way, I’ve had a couple of pieces of my own on PJM recently, but not dealing with education. Here is the most recent one.