What We Are Reading:
Creating Viewpoint Diversity 

By Samantha Hill

Musa Al-Gharbi reflects upon his work for the Heterodox Academy and the difficult work of creating genuine viewpoint diversity on college campuses:
 

To be blunt: anyone who says they are out to reform higher education but spends their time trying to mock, caricature, villainize or discredit the left — they are not serious about realizing change. They are prizing sanctimony over effectiveness. They are engaging in a nihilistic way and, in fact, harming the ability of others to make progress as well. 

The left is not the problem. Homogeneity is a problem. Parochialism is a problem. Dogmatism is a problem. And these are general problems, not left problems. In a world where most students, faculty and administrators skewed conservative to the same degree they currently skew liberal, we should expect to see roughly the same issues arise with respect to bias, discrimination, censorship, institutional capture, etc. (indeed, we do observe just that in situations where the tables are turned). 

The goal, therefore, should not be to advocate for the right or against the left (or any variation on this approach), but rather to create and implement institutional values, policies and practices that prevent people from establishing their own ideology as an orthodoxy and punishing or expelling those who dissent therefrom.