[Looks around literally fascist society]: ‘The fundamental equity issue in higher education is not enough fascists teaching at universities. (I am not a fascist.)’ K.

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The belief that academia is made up of an improper imbalance between "liberal" and "conservative" faculty is a function of the hugely problematic idea that freedom of speech, and not academic freedom, is the criterion of desirable discourse at institutions of higher ed

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If he did, I would answer back that the very idea of training scholars in "conservative" scholarship to make up for a deficit of "conservative academics" is a basic failure to understand the assignment

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I think he would respond that the real problem is there is no pipeline for training conservative scholars to enter academia. Things would be different if there were conservative versions of the Federalist Society or the Claremont Institute or the Heritage Foundation or the Cato Institute or AEI.

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or simply ask Tyler_A_Harper, sure, which PhD Gender Studies professor who is also an anti-abortion protester and has argued that personhood of the fetus has primacy over bodily autonomy are you referencing? Name one, just one such academic. We'll wait....

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