The most frightening ramification of the politicization of academia is the pervasive distrust of all science and all history.
Liberals are actually right that the plague of conspiracy theories festering online are a blight on truth and objective reality. But its a problem of their own making.
If we cannot trust the intellectual elites to be objective truth seekers, which is the entire basis of claims to scientific truth, then every yahoo online is just as reliable an "expert" as the left-wing political activists masquerading as professors.
There has been an accelerating left-wing polarization in academia over the last century. The most unreliable information is the most recent, developed during the "woke" era. The further back in time we go, (especially prior to the 1960s) the more we can trust the dispassionate objective analysis of Western intellectual traditions.
Liberals are actually right that the plague of conspiracy theories festering online are a blight on truth and objective reality. But its a problem of their own making.
If we cannot trust the intellectual elites to be objective truth seekers, which is the entire basis of claims to scientific truth, then every yahoo online is just as reliable an "expert" as the left-wing political activists masquerading as professors.
There has been an accelerating left-wing polarization in academia over the last century. The most unreliable information is the most recent, developed during the "woke" era. The further back in time we go, (especially prior to the 1960s) the more we can trust the dispassionate objective analysis of Western intellectual traditions.