[2banana]

Three years ago, I looked at the phenomenon of "preference cascades" -- in which people who have been obliged to conceal their true beliefs by social pressure or sheer force suddenly discover that a lot of other people feel the same way -- and wrote:

We can only hope this will happen to American Universities - heck - even people in the middle east are getting it!

[happyathome]

Right on - I was thinking about the same connection. One or two conservative students standing up to Lefty professors in the classroom might start an on-campus intellectual revolution, or at the least will expose the Left as "the establishment" at many (most?) schools.

On another note, I was thinking that not all of the propaganda that the Arab dictatorships spewed for the last 50 years will evaporate so quickly. Look at the protests among students in Iraq over Saturday being made part of the new "weekend". They oppose Saturday as a day off because it is the Jewish day of rest. These are Shiite kids who probably voted and aren't necessarily anti-American, yet the echos of 50 years of anti-Semitic propaganda still resonates. Notwithstanding the (above) author's concept of a spontaneous and rapid revolution, some poison is going to linger in the collective bloodstream for a while.

[Valin]

We can only hope this will happen to American Universities

I hope you're right, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Reforming the acadamy is going to take a long time.