New Boston Post recently reported comments by the new president of the University of New Hampshire dismissing concerns about ideological bias on university campuses. "I think that people make a little bit more of this than it really is," James W. Dean Jr. is reported to have said in an interview with a local media group.
I want to challenge President Dean. I teach graduates of major universities such as UNH. And I see the effects of the ideological bias that pervades higher education.
Many of the latest headlines boil down to a conflict about nationalism.
Great Britain's exit from the European Union. Donald Trump's attempt to erect a border wall and to renegotiate the terms of international trade agreements. Russian meddling in American politics. Even public marches by avowed racists wind up being described in the press, accurately or inaccurately, as actions by "white nationalists."
