Why many academic departments should be replaced with “think tanks”

Glenn Loury has an important essay up on his website, Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of “Political Correctness” and Related Phenomena”. A classic “read the whole thing.” But I want to highlight one section: Sociologist James Coleman, perhaps the world’s leading scholar of educational policy, recalls that in 1976 the president and a number … Continue reading Why many academic departments should be replaced with “think tanks”