Diversity in the Academy – What a Joke!

Two years ago, as we launched the NewBostonPost, I wrote a blog article about the alleged diversity in the Academy. The Left pats itself on the back, as it celebrates racial and ethnic diversity in U.S. colleges and universities, as well as gender diversity and even transgender diversity.

But I lamented the near total absence of the most important kind of diversity — intellectual diversity. After all, isn't intellectual diversity –- the competition of ideas — what the Academy is meant to be all about? If you question the empirical evidence backing up man-made "global warming," you are a "denier," who should be relegated to the Flat Earth Society. If you mention that you are pro-life and that abortion is wrong, you will be run off campus before you finish the sentence. Or try to affirm traditional marriage, and you will be shamed with cries of "bigot" and "homophobe." Throw out the phrase "Make America great again," and you run the risk of being physically assaulted.