There is no shortage of examples of reactionary pundits and politicians going after "pointy-head college professors who can't even park a bicycle straight" (an example from long before I began writing), and in more recent decades everyone on the far right from Rush Limbaugh (who included academia among his "four corners of deceit") to Rick Santorum (who called Barack Obama a "snob" for advocating policies to increase college attendance) has gotten… [read post]