Writing in The Weekly Standard, James Piereson places the birth and dominance of “The Left University” in historical perspective. He percieves “a new tide of change and reform . . . that suggest the days of the left university are numbered.” In particular, Piereson finds hope in the cropping up of “dissident” institutes, programs, and think tanks.

Roger Kimball is less optimistic. In Minding the Campus, he explains his prediction that these initiatives “will remain minority enterprises, a handful of gadflies buzzing about the left-lunging behemoth that is contemporary academia.”

In any case, to paraphrase Cervantes, what’s called for is the patience to keep shuffling those cards.