It’s A Shame You Have To Leave Academia To Get Sane

Last weekend, while at the neighborhood playground with my young boys, I met a pleasant mother, about 40, with her two boys.

She described how she taught colonialist history at major NYC and northern California colleges, and was a focused advocate of extreme leftist revisionism.

Now, she’s out of academia, a homemaker, and while still quite liberal she realizes how out of touch and focus she was, reinforced by the academic environment. Her views of history and life are now much broader, and more real. And, she’s much happier, not getting over-exercised at the latest cause to sweep campus.

After we parted, I thought what a shame one has to leave academia to get sane.