At least one leftist is scared stiff that “The Neo-Con Strategy to Fight the Cosmopolitan University” will succeed and “destroy

an institution that has given us a center from which to engage our world and

voice our grievances with it.”

Maybe he really believes that the sky will fall unless professors are given

free rein to prattle about oppression when they’re supposed to be teaching

students how to write and regaling them with tales about the evils of

capitalism when the subject is supposed to be political science. Calm down.

The idea, which is not unique to neo-cons, is that professors should not

abuse their positions by turning their classrooms into running pep rallies

for their favorite political causes. Doing that would hardly destroy “the

cosmopolitan university.”