This is my own story.
I've taught at four major North American universities. I've also worked for two of Canada's major think tanks. When I taught at the University of Calgary and I went to see the chairman at the end of my first year, I said, “I'd love to stay on. This is great. I think the students like me. I have good reviews,” and so on. He said, “Oh, we wouldn't have hired you if we'd known you were conservative.” I said that seemed a bit strange, and he said, “Oh, no. We just don't like ideology.” I said, “With respect, sir, we're sitting in your office under a six-foot red square silk flag of Che Guevara.” He said, “That's just decoration.”
At the end, I also had a student tell me, “I'm a graduating senior in history, and in four years, you're the first professor I've ever heard criticize the Soviet Union.” That was in Calgary. That was 30 years ago.
This is not a healthy environment. This is not a place where students are being exposed to a variety of viewpoints and are being challenged.
It's worse in the humanities than it is in the sciences, but it's getting into the sciences too. This is not—