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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Carol Platt Liebau: Our University Students: Pressured to Feign Left-Wing Views
Description: It’s not an easy time to be a college student. According to a study of roughly fifteen hundred undergrads at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, over the last two years, fully eighty-eight percent pretended to hold more left-wing views than they actually had in order to succeed socially or academically. In other words, the atmosphere on campus is so intolerant and so punitive that there is a massive culture of self-censorship, both inside and outside the classroom. College leaders, professors, and administrators who perpetuated this system are a disgrace. They’ve i...