Of course one of the ironies is that even though, as David Thompson points out, serious and worthwhile work continues being done at elite campuses in the hard sciences, the professors who teach those courses are still largely susceptible to the leftist group-think that dominates elsewhere on campus. Friends of mine from college who majored in things like computer science or engineering or who went on to do graduate work in those fields eventually ended up being indoctrinated by the ridiculous left-wing cant that dominated the campuses where they were studying. I’ve observed this numerous times, and it is also true at the university where I work now. There is one professor, a geologist, whose technical research is apparently held in high regard, but who is also one of the biggest environmental activists on campus, and who is busy trying to find ways to force his extreme environmental views on everyone on campus.
One of the reasons for this is that people who study the sciences or engineering often know too little of history or philosophy or other matters that might make them less inclined to buy into the conventional wisdom that dominates our leftist campuses.
