[DeweyCA]

This is a very surprisingly candid article from the Harvard school newspaper. Their suggestions for more intellectual and political diversity will never be implemented, but it is refreshing to see that at least a few of their students see the need for more intellectual diversity on their campus. BTW, almost all of the comments are from conservatives.

[wastoute]

No surprise. They have consciously and carefully pursued this goal for decades. Now to pretend they are surprised by what they have constructed is disingenuous, at best.

[Red Badger]

n economics, for instance, more political views from the radical left would likely enrich our intellectual experience in the same way as more conservative views would in the humanities.

I see the problem.........................

[Gay State Conservative]

I worked for almost 35 years at two of the world's finest,and most famous,hospitals.Both were major teaching affiliates of Harvard Medical School.Every June at teaching hospitals nationwide a new bunch of "interns" (PGY1) arrives ready for work.My hospitals,being as well respected as they were,had always had their pick of the top graduates of medical schools worldwide.As it turns out a substantial percentage of the doctors in training at my hospitals were graduates of Harvard Medical School and a good percentage of *them* also graduated from Harvard College.

In assessing the new arrivals we could always tell the Harvard grads from the others because they were the ones who were able to talk about the uvula for 5 hours non-stop but when handed a pop-up umbrella they were clueless.

[DannyTN]

Elelphant man? That’s so 1980.

[zeestephen]

Polls about “Liberals” and “Conservatives” are completely useless.

A majority of American Hispanics have described themselves as “Conservatives” for at least 3 decades.

The political reality?

71% of Hispanics voted to reelect Obama in 2012.

66% of Hispanics voted AGAINST Ronald Reagan in his 1984 landslide reelection.

Does supporting Amnesty help Republicans?

Vice President George H. W. Bush vigorously supported the Reagan Amnesty in 1986.

70% of Hispanics voted AGAINST Bush in 1988.

[Billthedrill]

In economics, for instance, more political views from the radical left would likely enrich our intellectual experience in the same way as more conservative views would in the humanities.

Uh, no. The only place you can even find a Marxian economist anymore is on a university faculty, because any business who tries that model goes broke. You might just as well hope for "diversity" by incorporating alchemists into the chemistry faculty. Not too many of them will succeed as working chemists anywhere else.

One real problem is that the Left has created its own ideological sinecures in the Studies departments that will not, by definition, admit of conservative membership. These are protected zones, well-funded and invulnerable. No diversity of opinion allowed.

The Long March Through The Institutions has resulted in a self-perpetuating and self-selecting population with very heavy biases, and frankly, they're perfectly happy and intend on keeping that way. That's the reason no one is talking about reform.