Are Conservatives (or Libertarians) Ruining Liberal Education?

By |2013-12-27T18:22:00-06:00May 9th, 2013|Categories: Alexis de Tocqueville, Conservatism, Liberal Learning, Libertarianism, Peter A. Lawler|

Plenty of liberals—and not just liberal professors—think there is a conservative conspiracy to use online education and MOOCs, to destroy genuinely higher education in this country. I see no organized conspiracy, and much of the liberal paranoia amounts to whining about the results of legitimate political defeats. Nonetheless, there is something to the thought that hostility [...]