Bye-Bye American Pie
Posted on July 3rd, 2008 in Uncategorized |
The Times reports that lefty professors, shaped by the ’60s, are starting to retire from their academic sinecures in droves, initiating a profound change in American academic culture.
Baby boomers, hired in large numbers during a huge expansion in higher education that continued into the ’70s, are being replaced by younger professors who many of the nearly 50 academics interviewed by The New York Times believe are different from their predecessors — less ideologically polarized and more politically moderate.
“There’s definitely something happening,” said Peter W. Wood, executive director of the National Association of Scholars, which was created in 1987 to counter attacks on Western culture and values. “I hear from quite a few faculty members and graduate students from around the country. They are not really interested in fighting the battles that have been fought over the last 20 years.”
Imagine that.
Att Harvard, though, there seems to be an ascension of ’60s-influenced politics into positions of high leadership….
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7/3/2024 11:15 pm
I thought this was a pretty good piece — actually read it in the paper from beginning to end. My only problem with it was actually in the bit you quoted.
Where it says, “the National Association of Scholars, which was created in 1987 to counter attacks on Western culture and values,” it should read “the National Association of Scholars, which was created in 1987 to counter ‘attacks on Western culture and values.’”
A pretty serious difference, that. I feel strongly about it.
What do you mean by 60s-influenced politics, by the way? Can you give an example? Are you sure you don’t mean late-80s influenced politics?
Jim