Academics live in a fantasy land well apart from the real world. Just like leftists everywhere.
What are you talking about? There are plenty of right-wing academics -- what do you think the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute are? Who do you think the opinion makers are for the right? The left doesn't own scholarship, and personally, I consider Bob Jones, jesuit colleges, and whatever Pat Robertson's rag to be legitimate universities -- even if I don't agree with Biblical fundamentalism as a scholarly concept. Don't let the left own academia -- there are arguments to be made for both sides -- it behooves conservatism to participate in academia -- and it enriches the learing environment to hear all viewpoints. It is a shame that there are not more conservative viewpoints on campus -- but don't knock scholarship. When I hear that kind of stuff, to me, it's just sour grapes and an inferiority complex that someone might know something that you don't.