In response to Prof. Childress, maybe it’s those “communitarian values” that explain why lots of students who graduate from college these days wind up serving Starbucks coffee or delivering for Pizza Hut.
The better argument for the defenders of the status quo is that, at least in many disciplines, it would be extremely hard to find anyone to hire who wasn’t a leftist. Tenured radicals in charge of Ph.D. programs in disciplines such as history, sociology, English and other fields have made it very difficult and unpleasant for anyone who doesn’t agree with them to get a degree. They don’t want students who disagree with their views of the world, so you find few non-leftists even choosing to try for a doctorate in those fields, much less completing the program.
In short, they only want fawning students who will become ideological clones. One might even criticize that as being “individualistic.”
