Here’s an excerpt from Harry Stein’s justifiably acerbic ”<a href=”http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2009/05/on_the_right_in_the_land_of_th.html“>On the Right In the Land Of The Tenured Left,” posted at Minding the Campus:

What acid rain is to our irreplaceable forests, lakes and streams, leftist dogma is to American higher education. In every corner of the land, it has turned once-flourishing departments of English and history into barren wastelands where only the academic equivalent of cockroaches can thrive. Its corrosive poison – infantile anti-Americanism, hatred of capitalism, scorn for ideological pluralism – spreads far beyond the narrow confines of its source, polluting popular culture, public education, the very laws under which we live. Absorbed in sufficiently high doses, it is morally and intellectually fatal.

The article is a modified chapter from Stein’s book, I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican, due soon from Encounter Books.