ASSAULT ON HIGHER EDUCATION: REPORTS FROM THE FRONT "Do as we say, not as we do" appears to be the motto of many a progressive university The Bad Faith of the Professors Mark Bauerlein I f you're not a liberal or a progressive but spend your time in a humanities department attending faculty meetings and extracurricular events, perusing course descriptions and hiring plans, and listening to what colleagues say about their profession, you know that leftist biases and taboos run through the fields from beginning to end. But left-of-center tendencies don't fully explain the current climate of thought and deed in academia. Another factor in the condition of the faculty complicates their liberalism. It assumes a simple form: on one side, yes, we have a stated belief in progressivist aims; on the other side, however, we have actual conduct by the professors and administrators that consistently belies them. Academics say one thing and do another. They proMark Bauerlein is an English professor at Emory University and senior editor of First Things. 90 modernagejournal.comhttp://www.modernagejournal.com