How Academe Shortchanges Conservative Thinking.

COLLEGE curriculum; CONSERVATISM; CONSERVATISM in the press; CONSERVATIVE Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back, The (Book); RIGHT & left (Political science); WHAT'S Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics & Bias in Higher Education (Book); ENEMY at Home: The Cultural Left & Its Responsibility for 9/11, The (Book); SULLIVAN, Andrew; BERUBE, Michael, 1961-; D'SOUZA, Dinesh, 1961-

The article considers the impact of conservative intellectuals on media and the publishing industry before asserting that little has changed in public life. The works of three authors are drawn upon in order to support the argument that while the denial of academic legitimacy to the conservative tradition exists and begins in the university classroom, it reverberates far beyond academia. The books addressed are "The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back," by Andrew Sullivan, "What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and 'Bias' in Higher Education," by Michael Bérubé, and "The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11," by Dinesh D'Souza. The importance of bringing conservative works to higher education curricula is emphasized.