Dan Williams (@conspicuouscognition): "Interesting post but analytic political philosophy, legal theory, and political science aren't the only departments in universities that touch on social and political questions. Is Rawlsian liberalism the core assumption in anthropology, sociology, media studies, comparative lit…"

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Interesting post but analytic political philosophy, legal theory, and political science aren't the only departments in universities that touch on social and political questions. Is Rawlsian liberalism the core assumption in anthropology, sociology, media studies, comparative literature, history, etc? Is Rawls more influential across university reading lists and syllabi than Foucault, Fanon, Butler, Said, Hall, Marx, etc? Don't know but I'm sceptical based on my own experiences in academia, both as student and faculty.

According to popular perception, universities have become cesspools of radical left-wing indoctrination, dominated by cultural Marxism, critical race theory, and post-modernism. As someone who has been working on the inside through the past three decades of intellectual fads and enthusiasms, I am sorry to report that, not only is this false, it is the opposite of true. The hegemonic ideology in the fields of political philosophy, legal theory, and political science, throughout my entire career, has been American liberalism.

Joseph Heath

Feb 10

6:53 PM

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