Carol Platt Liebau: Depriving Our Students of the Diversity That Matters

It’s commencement season again—another class of young Americans heading out into the world. But one statistic says a lot about what they’re leaving behind: at top universities this year, left-wing speakers outnumber others six to one on commencement stages. That lack of viewpoint diversity point to something deeper: An intellectual climate marked by intolerance and conformity, not curiosity and debate. There was a time when a college degree signaled that a student had learned how to think—and had encountered the ideas that shaped the Western tradition. Today, that’s no longer a safe assumption. Too often, higher education has become dominated by a narrow ideological framework, with too few faculty willing—or able—to model real intellectual rigor. The result is predictable: universities that once fostered inquiry now too often enforce orthodoxy. That’s not education. It’s indoctrination.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.