Anne Neal argues that the higher education establishment plays lip service to academic freedom. But when presented data on the overwhelming number of liberal faculty members in American colleges and universities, the higher education establishment simply denies the facts and attacks the messenger. Referencing Bob Woodward?s book, she calls this the higher education ?state of denial.?

Renowned professors, like Penn State?s Michael Berube, insist that such data do not matter and that faculties do not enforce an ideological litmus test. Berube does not believe that it really matters that overwhelming numbers of liberal professors teach in colleges and universities. But according to Ms. Neal, the question is whether the one-sidedness affects the quality of research and classroom learning. The answer is yes.