{"id":506,"date":"2004-04-09T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/diversity-ii\/"},"modified":"2004-04-09T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-09T23:50:00","slug":"diversity-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/09\/diversity-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last post I lamented the dearth of <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com\/2004_04_01_preposterousuniverse_archive.html#108148346854964196\">women in physics<\/a>, but there is another group that is even less well represented:  conservatives in academia.  Not to fear, David Horowitz has come up with a straightforward solution to this glaring inequity:  he wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/free\/v50\/i23\/23b01201.htm\">legislate ideological balance<\/a> in university departments, under the rubric of &#8220;intellectual diversity.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>This is obviously a brilliant idea, although it suffers from one obvious flaw:  it takes the influence of academia far too seriously.  What we really need to do is to legislate mandatory ideological balance in all areas of human endeavor.  Personally I think that large corporations tend to affect our daily lives more than university faculties do, so I&#8217;d be happy to see affirmative action for under-represented politics among CEOs.  All sorts of institutions could be opened up to greater balance: lawyers, bankers, football coaches, the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  I look forward to the day when all sectors of America have attained perfect ideological diversity.<\/p>\n<p>As a side project (how does he find the time?) Horowitz wants to help leftists keep in touch with each other, through a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailysouthtown.com\/southtown\/dsnews\/2219nd1.htm\">database of leftist people and organizations<\/a>.  The site will eventually be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.followthenetwork.org\">www.followthenetwork.org<\/a>, but the pages are currently unavailable while they work some of the kinks out.  If you&#8217;re impatient, someone has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkpol.net\/ftnmir1\" \/>mirrored<\/a> an early version of the site before it went quiet.  I was happy to see the University of Chicago appear, although apparently the Enrico Fermi Institute didn&#8217;t make it. Thanks for the help keeping the left-wing conspiracy intact, David.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last post I lamented the dearth of women in physics, but there is another group that is even less well represented: conservatives in academia. Not to fear, David Horowitz has come up with a straightforward solution to this glaring inequity: he wants to legislate ideological balance in university departments, under the rubric of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}