[shrinkermd]

Of singular importance is that this appeared as a ho hum editorial in the NY Times. Political correctness as a litmus test for academics is under fire and increasingly so. So much so, even liberals are abandoning it.

[Steely Tom]

280 words in this excerpt and no sign of a point anywhere on the horizon.

[Landru]

"Of singular importance is that this appeared as a ho hum editorial in the NY Times."

Think so?
Perhaps Pinch's & his boyz' motivation's (more) rooted in economics than actually serving the interest(s) of those who remain their paying subscribers? :o)

If one's even remotely savvy on the American political scene --from a conservative POV-- just try contemplating what it'd take for this ilk to break away from THEIR usual *&* continual Liberal-Sociliast-Communist orthodoxy they've spewed for decades.

While if there's actually been a shift, it has a perfectly logical reason but most assuredly has nothing to do with anything they'll ever say.

"Political correctness as a litmus test for academics is under fire and increasingly so. So much so, even liberals are abandoning it."

~huh.
They are?

...pray-tell, where?

[WashingtonSource]

Stanely Fish is the father of PC. He brought the whole deconstructionist view of the world to Duke University when he headed the English Department. It is sheer duplicity to pretend to believe that he is against “Indoctrination U” since he helped create it. He’s just trying to wipe away the layers of tarnish on his sordid image as a ideological hack.