THE SUBVERSIVE YEAST WITHIN UNIVERSITIES TODAY

In this brief excerpt, conservative philosopher Roger Scruton writes about the time he spent in Bucharest with the members of a small conservative think tank and how the conversation moved onto subjects featured in the curriculums of various Western University's:

Most of those present had spent time in a western university, and all had been troubled by the curriculum they had encountered there. In their eyes the western curriculum seems to have no other appeal than that which comes from deconstructing the forms of authority and order which have come down to us from our Judaeo-Christian culture. And yet that appeal is enough: nothing else seems required for academic legitimacy, and even if you write the kind of constipated sociologese of a Habermas or a Giddens, you can be guaranteed a position by those who would read you only so far as to extract the subversive and postmodern message.