In today’s Pope Center piece, I comment on the controversy that has erupted over the proposal at Virginia Tech to make faculty promotion depend on the degree of enthusiasm the individual exhibits for the school’s “diversity initiatives.”

I think it’s obvious that the proposed guidelines would cause faculty members who oppose the obsession over race, ethnicity, gender, and so on to keep all such thoughts to themselves. The problem of “academic monoculture” as Steve Balch puts it, would get worse.