he attack on Charles Murray and another professor by student protestors at Middlebury College has prompted a lot of soul searching at American colleges and universities about the state of our students, especially their capacity to engage in a civil and well-reasoned discourse. This is certainly necessary, but there is perhaps an even greater need to take a critical look at our nation's professors.
Though I am a professor myself, I do not say this for reasons of vanity or self-interest. Rather, we need to look more carefully at the ideas and ways in which our faculty are shaping the Millennial and Homeland generations of students around the country, for the simple reason that faculty ideology is dramatically out of step with the values and beliefs of the rest of the nation.
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