Providing Deliberative Space
On Sunday, Nicholas Kristof published a column in the New York Times condemning college campuses for being liberal “bubbles” and echo-chambers. The one example of such a college he offered was Oberlin, a small residential liberal arts school like my own. Elizabeth Lehfeldt has written a beautiful rebuttal to Kristof, pointing out that SLACs hardly characterize the vast majority of American college campuses. But I’d like to rebut Kristof on a different score: by pointing out that his characterization of…