I am almost finished Tom Wolfe’s new book I Am Charlotte Simmons and will write about it when I finish, but for now I couldn’t resist posting his perfect description of two typical college professors:
Both were firm believers in diversity and
multiculturalism in college. Both believed in abortion, not so much because
they thought anyone they knew might want an abortion as because legalizing it
helped put an exhausted and dysfunctional Christendom and its weird, hidebound
religious restraints in their place. For the same reason, both believed in gay
rights, women’s rights, transgender rights, fox, bear, wolf, swordfish, halibut,
ozone, wetland, and hardwood rights, gun control, contemporary art, and the Democratic
Party. Both were against hunting and, for that matter, woods, fields, mountain
trails, rock climbing, sailing, fishing, and the outdoors in general, except
for golf courses and the beach.