Why a Blog on Intellectual Diversity?

I suppose my awakening happened sometime between grad-school when I sat through an entire lecture devoted to why Reagan was a bad president and at my job as a college writing tutor where I helped a student revise a paper with a thesis asserted that Christians were to blame for global warming.

I have always loved academia and the pursuit of knowledge. I love to read and write. I love the ideal of a university being a place where all points of view are explored and examined without presumption, but that is not what is happening on college campuses. Most universities lean left and political correctness leaves little room for true academic freedom.

I am nobody. I am not a professor. But my in my sixteen years of working for different departments as a grader, tutor, and sometimes instructor, I have witnessed the disintegration of the ideal…or it may be that I have just become more aware of it as I rebuilt my own values as a conservative after they were torn to pieces during the time I got my degrees.

My love for the written word has led me to publish six mystery novels, three of which with a Random House imprint (just so you don’t think I am Xeroxing them at Kinkos and calling myself a published writer). I would love to continue to write my humorous who-dun-its, but over and over the things that happen on campuses lead me to believe I need to put my writing skills to work to reverse this trend.

As a Christian and a conservative majoring in the humanities, I often felt alone, unable to find like minded professors to be my mentors. Also, the times when I felt like I wanted to challenge an assignment, I was unable to find the resources and text that I needed. So the purpose of this blog is to be a support for those who desire to hold on to their values while navigating the hostile waters of a liberal college education.

I hope to be a support by providing short History and English lessons from a conservative point of view to counter the lectures you may have to sit through in college classes. If the Ben Stein movie Expelled is any indication, blacklisting is occurring in the sciences as well. So I may have to venture into the less familiar land of the sciences as well.

The blog will contain book reviews of conservative books that might help you the student write papers or simply sharpen your world view (trust me they won’t be assigned in you classes). I also intend to keep up with news and provide commentary on what is happening at the university where I work and those I read about. Though I see my primary audience as students, I know there are conservative profs out there fighting the good fight. Also, I think there are profs who would identify themselves as liberal who are fed up with the destructive and mind numbing force of political correctness. All reasonable people are welcome.

Finally, the only way to change things is to build networks of support in person and online. For me, that starts with this blog.

In the bigger picture, I want to be part of seeing a return to the ideals of a university education through seeing more conservative professors hired and more conservative scholarship being done.