text: am i the only one, or does it scare anyone else that most institutions of higher education are so liberal? colleges, universities are supposed to encourage individuals to think on their own yet most institutions spoon feed, even force feed our children the liberal agenda.  why?  and is there a strictly conservative college out there? "but the practical effect of idealism is to rob the academic of his intellectual freedom: in familiar terms, research must be “politically correct” else it is taboo. obviously, the term “politically correct” prejudges the epistemological supremacy of a particular ideology (usually socialism), and is thus, in itself, an abomination to enlightenment naturalism. this is what richard feynman called “cargo cult science”; it is tremendously unhealthy for the academy, and hence for civilization at large. in those sectors of academia that are capital-intensive — most notably, the sciences — research is almost entirely funded by government grants, and is shaped to appeal to the grant evaluators."