Commentary
We need more diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the ideological dimension. This should hold true everywhere, but especially on the nation’s campuses. DEI has been applied to a whole host of criteria that are, strictly speaking, orthogonal, not to say entirely irrelevant, to the main mission of higher education, namely, the creation, discussion, and promotion of ideas, particularly to the next generation.
The problem is that for the overwhelming majority of universities, professors who espouse conservative or libertarian perspectives are as scarce as proverbial hen’s teeth. Every brand of leftism, including so-called “progressivism,” Marxism, and feminism, is fully represented there. Black studies and queer studies have pride of place. There are disciplines such as sociology, political science, history, literature, philosophy, and law where hardly ever, not to say never, a discouraging word is heard to scholars of this ilk. It’s time, it’s past time, that ideological—intellectual—diversity be widely implemented….