LET THE RESISTANCE GROW. At Phi Beta Cons, David French (also of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) notes the favorable reaction to the creation of an Alexander Hamilton Center for the study of the Western tradition at Hamilton College, and draws a broader inference.

I know I’m not the first to talk about Hamilton’s new center, but I bring it up again because it is a tremendous illustration of the tectonic shift that is just beginning in higher education. One need merely read the message boards at Inside Higher Ed and elsewhere to see that the radical left feels under siege. While I don’t want to over-emphasize our progress — the left, after all, is still firmly in control — it is now clear that they are reacting to us, not us to them.

Maybe, but this alarm from Nebraska (via Milt Rosenberg) suggests there are still diversity boondoggles and expansions of the failed 2A-2R model of higher education to be identified and debated.