Academic Diversity

I found it interesting that the Economist recently discussed academic diversity (or the lack of). In the article they cite George Will who wrote a more thoughtful column on the same subject earlier last week. Will, however, provides an example of blowback that has been caused by the domination of leftism at American Universities:

Academics such as the next secretary of state still decorate Washington, but academia is less listened to than it was. It has marginalized itself, partly by political shrillness and silliness that have something to do with the parochialism produced by what George Orwell called "smelly little orthodoxies."

The John Adams Society recently debated this subject. Although all members of the Society agree that academia is wholly left, the Society disagreed as to what damage this has or will cause to our civilization. I agree with Will, but with an added thought.... There are just as many instances of college students bucking authority as there are of students going along with their professors. I imagine that eventually the leftist domination will lead students down a different path, one that leads far away from the shoddy liberalism being forced down their throats in the lecture hall. After all, it's just not natural for students to accept the party line.