The WSJ has an intriguing story about a “faculty-on-faculty war” underway at Columbia, pitting humanity and poly-sci types against science, engineering and business types. The divide is not as clear cut by studies as portrayed. There’s a Jewish-faculty component that’s tied to concerns over pro-Palestinian protests on campus, the WSJ reports. But the political divisions by schools are definitely there – basically far-left humanities professors versus more moderate professors in other fields. … And I strongly suspect there’s similar faculty divides on other campuses.…

Faculty members at colleges across the country will present a unified front against Donald Trump’s blunt-ax assaults on academia. But underneath the veneer of solidarity are some simmering hard feelings, much of it tied to the antics of radical far-left academics on campuses.