Why Higher Education Should Have a Leftist Bias

1. Introduction
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Part I. Countering the Bias of Business as Usual

2. Conservatism as the Unmarked Norm
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3. Restricted-Code Conservatism
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4. Socialism as a Cognitive Alternative
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Part II. Countering the Conservative Counter-Establishment

5. The Conservative Attack Machine: “Admit Nothing, Deny Everything, Launch Counterattack”
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6. Right-Wing Deconstruction: Mimicry and False Equivalencies
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7. From Partisan Review to Fox News: Neoconservatives as Defenders of Intellectual Standards
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8. Conservative Scholarship: Seeing the Object as It Really Isn’t
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Part III. Responsible Leftist Teaching

9. Balancing Commitment and Openness in Teaching: Giving Conservatives Their Best Shot
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10. A Case Study: Leftist Versus Conservative Arguments on College Costs
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11. The Radical Humanistic Canon
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12. Conclusion
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Keywords: Education, Higher Education, Philosophy of Education, Political Sociology, Teaching and Teacher Education, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Educational Philosophy