EMAIL OF THE DAY

“I’m an undergrad at Princeton and feel like I need to challenge this whole professorial bias business. I know it’s fun for you to receive letters about intimidated conservatives and cherry-pick the most shocking stories for publication, but (in my experience) these kind of stories either don’t happen or, at best, are very rare. I took a class called Discrimination and the Law that was taught by a very, very liberal professor, and was lucky enough to have her for my small-group discussion. Despite her personal politics, she would often pull the discussion to the *right* in our left-leaning precept if it was becoming too one-sided. In that class, just as in those taught by Robbie George (who is, by the way, one of Princeton’s most popular professors), students who make good arguments are rewarded regardless of political philosophy. If the writers whose anecdotes you printed had better thought out their positions beforehand, maybe they could have shot back and impressed their TA or professor.
Of course, this is just my experience, but it’s definitely not uncommon.”