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The New PC: Crybaby Conservatives

By Russell Jacoby, The Nation. Posted April 11, 2005.


Conservatives like David Horowitz complain relentlessly that they do not get a fair shake in the university. What fuels the persistent charges that professors are misleading the young?

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Russell Jacoby is the author of The Last Intellectuals, Social Amnesia and other works. His new book, Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age, will be published this spring by Columbia University Press. He teaches history at UCLA.

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