Franklin Einspruch on Arm's Length

The extreme marginalization of professors who say they hold conservative views - which is what West and George are talking about - may not matter to you. But they lead to Vance's statements and his administration's policies, which evidently bother you quite a lot. Perhaps you should consider the former further. Vance, mind you, has a JD from Yale. He is not some anti-education ignoramus. He looked at what's going on and asked why American taxpayers should be underwriting, among other things, progressive antisemitism at Harvard. Professors would be in a very different position if, in response to Vance calling them the enemy, could point to the myriad examples of non-progressives thriving in academia and the robust intellectual exchanges between opposing political camps. On the contrary, decades of selection assured that nothing of the sort was taking place. Administrations have adopted policies that wide swaths of Americans find repellant... https://www.chronicle.com/article/higher-ed-brought-this-on-itself ...and signifcant numbers if not majorities of faculty have remade their fields according to values that, again, wide swaths of Americans find repellant. https://americanmind.org/salvo/tenure-track-in-higher-ed-is-going-extinct/ I agree with you that the Indiana legislature does not have effective solutions to offer here. This fellow does, but you're not going to like it. https://americanmind.org/salvo/trump-must-break-up-the-college-cartel/ If I understand you, your stance is that George and West are not describing a real problem, nor am I, nor is FIRE. Is the state of free speech and intellectual life just fine at the universities and they should be left alone to operate as they have been all these decades, right down to their business model? That strikes me as an untenable view as the Intafada globalizes from Columbia to UC Berkeley and public support for higher education continues to decay.