Inside Higher Ed: Politics Found to Be Irrelevant in Most Courses
As David Horowitz and other critics have attacked colleges in recent years as full of liberal indoctrination, many college professors have wondered which campuses these critics had visited. While professors are more liberal than the average American, these faculty members have said over and again, the vast majority of courses focus on accounting or Spanish or composition or whatever — without much discussion of politics at all. A new book from the Brookings Institution Press finds pretty much what these professors have been saying all along. Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities — by three professors at George Mason University — is based on both surveys and interviews and finds that there is so much “ideological peace” on campus that political debate is relatively rare and that campuses are rarely the site of sustained political discussions.
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