A professor of philosophy is issuing a dark vision of academia’s future: Ivy towers populated by politically partisan faculty, milling out intellectually dull apparatchiks. 

If that sounds an awful lot like the current state of academia, Jennifer M. Morton doesn’t let on. Morton, a professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, aired her thoughts on “viewpoint diversity” in an op-ed for The New York Times. 

Morton’s headline warns that “hiring professors with conservative views could backfire on conservatives.” This, in light of the Trump administration’s letter to Harvard University demanding “viewpoint diversity in admissions and hiring,” lest the government revoke federal funding.

Could admitting conservatives possibly “backfire” in more spectacular fashion than the current admissions and hiring practices of elite universities? Those practices certainly appear to privilege the applications of non-white, non-male, non-heterosexual individuals above all others. (RELATED: Harvard Goes Down With The DEI Ship)

most universities & colleges surely have faculty members who are contrarians? liberals & progressives are always quarreling with one another; “the left eats its own”; hiring conservatives per se will result in very lop-sided resumés especially in the sciences. really, research… https://t.co/61GEK35e3c

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates)

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