[Temple Drake]

the U of Chicago is pretty way left, IMHO. And I cannot see justifying these stupid courses -- or expecting parents to pay for them

[GunsareOK]

...colleges YAF thinks are on the right track...

I would add Grove City College in Pennsylvania to the list.

[Pharmboy]

Both the U of Chicago and Columbia--while no doubt remaining bastions of feel-good squishy leftism--both maintain requirements for a core curriculum that has been essentially unchanged for decades.

The courses given as examples are impossible to defend, but the lefties on campus have no choice but to do just that. They're all self-indulgent claptrack and EVERYONE knows it.

[concerned about politics]

When I pay for my kids college, by golly, I'll know what I'm paying for. This stuff isn't cheap, and it's just plain a waste of time.
Academics will be paid for. If they chose those freaky liberal classes, they'll have to beg on the streets to pay for them.
The cash won't come from here!
Parents aren't being parents anymore. Send the kid off to the indoctrination centers and forget about them. Let the schools raise them.
That's what's wrong with America today. Parents are missing, and the village of the insane has taken over.