A PBC reader notes:

What’s particularly interesting is that Mary Lefkowitz is a otherwise left leaning member of her college’s faculty, and is only brought to her understanding of the idiocy of the teaching of history by the “studies” department reluctantly and almost by accident. She holds no “conservative” views – before or after her experience – she just wants to teach facts. It’s always a surprise to liberals to have their own strange bedfellows accuse them of racism or other ad hominem accusations.

One does wonder how many Left-leaning people have been turned off by the higher-learning culture. If Larry Summers enters the warp zone of academia and emerges looking the part of an archconservative, or Mary Lefkowitz the part of the bigot, hasn’t the rift between the university and the outside world grown large enough to merit closer inspection? I agree with George, in any case. Three cheers for Prof Lefkowitz.