The typical politically active professor teaching at Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, and America’s other leading universities sits in the same ideological neighborhood as Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the three most progressive members of Congress. The bigger issue, however, is that many campuses lack the intellectual range for anyone to seriously challenge those professors’ views.

Jonathan Farber serves on the Board of Advisers of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and is a longtime donor to FIRE.

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Jonathan Farber serves on the Board of Advisers of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and is a longtime donor to FIRE.

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