Harvard's Leader Not a Commie

For my fellow Harvardians.

I hope that Summers can continue to push out the aggressively leftist professors that made learning nearly impossible as it became merely the vehicle for propaganda.

Note for post-modernists about the statement above:
One means of distinquishing propaganda from learning is the degree of manufactured outrage that accompanies any disagreement, with an increase in such typically pointing to propaganda. While this outrage measure is not a foolproof method of differentiating propaganda from learning, it does set a rough measure by which (especially in the liberal arts) disagreement and outrage can be tied to propaganda.

It might be useful to note that the willingness to tolerate differences of opinion is an academic virtue, not a moral one. When differences of opinion (yes, including support for terrorists, commies, nazis, etc) are reduced to simple, reflexive moral outrage, the tendency among students and teachers is to reduce critical thinking to a supporting role.

We can separate learning from propaganda by disagreeing with ideas logically -- not emotionally. Villification is a tool of last resort. Just look at Michael Moore.

Facts, smacts.

Harvard's Leader Keeps Up Push To Remake School for 21st Century (washingtonpost.com)