What Does Bowdoin Teach?

The National Association of Scholars has just issued a report on Bowdoin College (based in Brunswick, Maine) aptly entitled What Does Bowdoin Teach?  It is a must read as, like William F. Buckley's famous God and Man at Yale, it details--painfully in many instances--what really goes on at Bowdoin.  (The report should immediately signal to the reader that the things going on at Bowdoin are not merely limited to that college but are instead indicative of most modern liberal arts universities and ivy league schools.)

If you may not know the back story, this all began when the Chairman of the Claremont Institute, Thomas Klingenstein, golfed with Bowdoin President Barry Mills.  Mills attacked Klingenstein for being against the diversity agenda that is a main driving force behind most of the academic policies at Bowdoin.  Mills of course acted as though Klingenstein was a relic from the Stone Age and proceeded to walk off the course with "despair and deep concern."  Klingenstein published a corrective to Mills' interpretation of what had taken place and in the process, continued to make the case of the intellectual and moral lethargy of liberal arts college around the U.S., with a perfect example being what was going on at Bowdoin.