Voice of the Left The Village Voice has this smart piece on Harvard, along with some kind words about Harvard Rules. It's nice to see the book discussed, finally, in a progressive publication.

You have to give the conservative media credit; they realize the reality of the university as a political battleground in a way that the liberal press, such as it is, does not. Ross Douthat's Privilege has been picked up and carried around on the shoulders of conservatives as if it were the quarterback who scored the winning touchdown. By contrast, Salon.com, the Nation, Mother Jones, the New York Review of Books, the American Prospect—none of these places have reviewed either Harvard Rules or Privilege.

I wonder if the left, shaped so much by the '60s and '70s, doesn't simply take its dominance in academia for granted. If true, Baby Boomer liberals are going to be in for a big surprise. As Tom Wolfe and, more realistically, David Brooks, have pointed out, college students today are hardly surefire liberals. If the left cedes this turf to conservatives, it's in even greater trouble than it is now.  ¶ 7:32 AM