Al-Gharbi, the sociologist, believes that ideological conformity and a lack of conservative views are a genuine problem in higher education, but that the "reception" of these centers is complicated by the fact that the right is elsewhere engaged in attacking academic programs, such as women's, ethnic, and area studies, whose ideas they find objectionable.
That makes conservatives' enthusiasm for plurality of thought feel hypocritical, he said – and also risks making these centers more isolated from their broader universities "than might be ideal for them to achieve their actual goals". He added: "One of the dangers of these centers is that you could end up with the same kind of groupthink that they were concerned about, just going in the other direction."…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/31/conservative-centers-universities
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