Dorian Abbot: "The Views That Made Me Persona Non Grata At MIT"

In a nutshell: that the dispassionate pursuit of truth is a legitimate endeavor.

It is the denial of that proposition that is the core of contemporary leftism. The academic/intellectual left is now fundamentally opposed to the pursuit of truth. In fact, it commonly goes so far as to deny that there even is such a thing as truth. An adjunct belief is: all pursuits are political, ergo the dispassionate pursuit of truth would be impossible even if there were such a thing to pursue. The left is not merely destroying universities, it is turning them into their opposite: institutions dedicated to denying and rejecting the very idea of academic endeavors.