Flunking statistics: the right's disinformation about faculty bias. (Gazette).

WHEN WILLIAM F. Buckley, Jr. launched America's conservative movement half a century ago, the requisite foe came readily to hand. In God & Man at Yale, Buckley identified the university he had just left--and, by implication, the country's entire higher-education establishment--as the driving force behind "agnosticism and collectivism" in American life. The specter of radical leftists in control of the nation's campuses would invigorate Republican platforms and speakers for a generation.

Years later, Richard Nixon, as president, found a fresh antagonist for ...

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