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Cathy Young

The academic left’s intolerance

By Cathy Young

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  May 12, 2012

The politics of higher education have been hotly debated for years: Conservatives charge that academia is choked by left-wing orthodoxies, liberals dismiss “political correctness” as a right-wing smear. This week, the conservative critique got a boost — from the academic left, whose response to a blogpost lambasting black studies was not to challenge the blogger but to shut her up.

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