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Unacademic and Unscientific Republicans
Apr. 5th, 2005 10:00 am~
Consider the statements of Dennis Baxley, a Florida legislator who has sponsored a bill that - like similar bills introduced in almost a dozen states - would give students who think that their conservative views aren't respected the right to sue their professors. Mr. Baxley says that he is taking on "leftists" struggling against "mainstream society," professors who act as "dictators" and turn the classroom into a "totalitarian niche." His prime example of academic totalitarianism? When professors say that evolution is a fact.
-- Paul Krugman for The NY Times
Mr. Krugman continues the cultural debate about how liberals dominate academia, broadening it to how this is also true with respect to the hard sciences rather than just the liberal arts and humanities. How many Republicans will be drawn to academia when so many are so anti-science, favoring revelation and ancient lore? One can only hope that they do not succeed in changing the way Americans do and understand science to fit their medieval predilections.
( Krugman column )
Consider the statements of Dennis Baxley, a Florida legislator who has sponsored a bill that - like similar bills introduced in almost a dozen states - would give students who think that their conservative views aren't respected the right to sue their professors. Mr. Baxley says that he is taking on "leftists" struggling against "mainstream society," professors who act as "dictators" and turn the classroom into a "totalitarian niche." His prime example of academic totalitarianism? When professors say that evolution is a fact.
-- Paul Krugman for The NY Times
Mr. Krugman continues the cultural debate about how liberals dominate academia, broadening it to how this is also true with respect to the hard sciences rather than just the liberal arts and humanities. How many Republicans will be drawn to academia when so many are so anti-science, favoring revelation and ancient lore? One can only hope that they do not succeed in changing the way Americans do and understand science to fit their medieval predilections.
( Krugman column )
