“...[L]iberal learning cannot become captive to the agenda of special interests, however deeply felt or angrily insistent they might be. But this requires a core of people ... who know why such things as evidence, logic, and a decent (read: civilized) regard for the arguments of others are central to the educational enterprise, and worth defending wherever these tenets of liberalism are attacked.”
— Sanford Pinsker, Academic Questions (Fall, 1997)