Academia's Bias Against Conservatives

I thoroughly agree with Stanley Kurtz, in yesterday's National Review online:

"Leftist professors sometimes justify their intellectual monopoly on our universities by claiming that, given conservative control of all three branches of government, the left deserves to hold the academy as its citadel. That was always a silly argument. In a nation divided by razor thin political margins, the academy is the only sector (well, movies too) where conservative voices are almost totally shut out. The academy is society's brain, so to speak. Our best minds ought to be exploring, debating, and discussing the issues that divide us at our colleges and universities. Anything less cheats our students of the opportunity to decide for themselves what they believe. It doesn't matter how good a discussion leader you are. If you're preventing your students from considering the finest representatives of conservative viewpoints, you are cheating them."