In the USA Today story on ACTA’s report, we find the expected dismissal from the folks on the left who think the status quo is just fine. The piece quotes Megan Fitzgerald of Free Exchange on Campus Coaltion, who calls the criticism of intellectual imbalance “a manufactured controversy that distracts from the real issues affecting higher education.” I don’t know what Free Exchange regards as the “real issues” (not enough government subsidies, I suppose), but the paucity of professors who will give a fair hearing to classical liberal, conservative, or libertarian critiques of the dominant collectivist/mega-state philosophy of the professoriate is not “a manufactured controversy.”

If Free Exchange wants to turn a blind eye to the fact that most college students get saturated with leftist notions throughout their years on campus and hardly ever hear anything favorable to limited government, private property, and spontaneous order, it has all the credibility of flat-earthers.