Academe’s Divorce from Reality - Commentary

William Deresiewicz, an American author, essayist, and literary critic, who taught English at Yale University from 1998 to 2008 and is the author of The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society, writes: 

The politics of the academy have been defeated. Its ideas, its assumptions, its opinions and positions — as expressed in official statements, embodied in policies and practices, established in centers and offices, and espoused and taught by large and leading portions of the professoriate — have been rejected. This was already evident before November 5. It can now no longer be denied.