[Nick Danger]

One cannot help but wonder why the public and private views of higher education's leadership differ so greatly.

Quite obviously they are living in an environment where they feel intimidated. They do not believe that it is safe to express their actual views. It is the same thing we see in Basra, where the effect is caused by armed thugs who will publicly execute anyone who speaks truth to Saddam.

There is a dictatorship in place in academia. It is as ruthless and destructive as Saddam Hussein. It should be; both are Stalinist in origin and composition. Both students and faculty are afraid of it. It enforces its dictates with economic violence, public humiliation, and menacing mobs.

This is called "academic freedom." It is not any kind of freedom the rest of us would want. But it is a foretaste of what will happen to all of us if the grip of the cultural left is not removed from our institutions.

[exDemMom]

But it is a foretaste of what will happen to all of us if the grip of the cultural left is not removed from our institutions.

This reminds me of the story about the mice afraid of a cat, who decided that tying a bell on the cat would be a perfect solution to their problem. The only hitch was that none of the mice wanted to be the one to tie the bell to the cat.

Likewise, how are we to wrest our colleges and universities away from the socialist/communist left that has had a stranglehold on them for so many decades?