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Much as professors insist that there is no bias in higher education, every survey shows otherwise, like the latest sample from The Wake Forest Review.

One of the many ironies or paradoxes of life in academia is that freedom of speech never is more complex than when it is discussed by people who speak for a living.

The other UN, the University of Nebraska, that is.

The university departments that provide them may soon have to.

If Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies gets any more anti-Israel than it already is, it will have to register as a foreign agent.

And they want to abolish it.

As if the line between political organizing and academic pursuits weren’t blurred enough.

Well, that didn’t take long.

When advising conservatives about how to navigate liberal-dominated academia, he counsels them to choose “a dissertation topic that’s totally non-ideological … ” and to omit experiences from their resume that reveal their conservatism when they’re seeking employment in higher education.

It seems that the University of North Carolina under the stewardship of former Republican U. S. Secretary of Education (DOE) Margaret Spellings is developing a reputation for competence reminiscent of her tenure at DOE.

Having failed in direct votes on even the most ardently anti-Israel campuses, propoents of boycotting, divesting from and sanctioning Israel and its scholars, BDS forces have been attempting to work their will on academia by stealth.

Communism is winning the battle of ideas in the dream world of academia that it could never win in the real world.