I still believe universities have a role in teaching the next generation. Most of the leftist garbage is absent from engineering, science, and math courses. I also had excellent philosophy, communications, and literature courses 20 years ago at Purdue. I also took an outstanding graduate engineering globalization course last semester off campus from Iowa State.
My MBA classes in general where taught by instructors without political axes to grind. My Law professor, a somewhat liberal lawyer, was one of my best teachers, and he appreciated thoughtful arguments on both sides of questions.
I know both conservative and liberal professors. My father in law, a Taft Republican, taught math for over forty years, and his students received valuable instruction in different math classes without being exposed to ideology (whether conservative or liberal).
I suspect poor teaching and lack of attention for critical thinking will be self correcting over time. In general university degrees are mostly vocational in intent (preparing the student for a career using the knowledge gained from the university). Employers and prospective students will force some changes I think. Reduction in alumni support or fleeing states whose taxes go to support universities without reasonable curriculum will also help.
Critical literature studies have been in vogue for quite some time; and, while I don't buy into all of it, I think understanding an author's situation at the time of writing, the sources and influences that the author had in his/her life, and the purpose/intent of the writing are all very valuable. I don't go in for the psychological garage like the id or collective unconscious though.
Physical sciences and math, yes. Biological sciences, no.
Biological sciences were long ago coopted and converted into providing a "scientific" foundation for marxism and loopy leftist secularism. Abortion, euthansia, PETA-style moral equivalence between humans and bacteria (just to name a few), are all built on that corrupt "scientific" foundation which the left's most distingushed professors of biological sciences have labored mightily to establish and maintain.
Physical sciences and math, yes. Biological sciences, no.
Biological sciences were long ago co-opted and converted into providing a "scientific" foundation for Marxism and loopy leftist secularism. Abortion, euthanasia, PETA-style moral equivalence between humans and bacteria (just to name a few), are all built on that corrupt "scientific" foundation which the left's most distinguished professors of biological sciences have labored mightily to establish and maintain.