The New York Times Magazine
Fed Up With Liberal Academia, Conservatives Call for Their Own Safe Space
January 09, 2019
In their universe, conservative speech and scholarship is uniquely endangered; they even claim that research universities “are, almost uniformly, a publicly subsidized, wholly owned subsidiary of the political left.” As is often the case with panics over campus liberalism, the case for the conservative university largely rests on a series of omissions. In reality, professors and students alike are often hounded by outside groups, right-wing pundits, or university administrators for expressing left-wing perspectives on issues ranging from Palestinian independence to sexism and racism.