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From Harvard on down, US academia is increasingly becoming less a marketplace of ideas than a church in which only believers get seats. When assessing the state of higher education in the United States, such problems as the Harvard faculty's ouster of its president or the unhinged radicalism of Columbia's Middle East studies get the most attention. Lesser institutions tend to get ignored, leaving the possible impression that they do not suffer so much from domination by the far Left. Such an impression would be wrong indeed. For a report from the trenches, I suggest the calm, factual testimony of...

SAN FRANCISCO, (CWNews.com) -- Father Joseph Fessio, SJ< who was ordered by his Jesuit superiors to leave San Francisco in what was generally recognized as a disciplinary move in March, has received a new assignment as chancellor of Ave Maria University. Father Fessio, the founder of Ignatius Press, had clashed with the Jesuit order over his plans for Campion College, a new institution with a strong Catholic identity that has been set up on the doorstep of the Jesuit-run University of San Francisco. He was ordered by his provincial, Father Thomas Smolich, SJ, to break all ties with Campion College....