Academia is only one of the places where wholly subjective criteria rule – and where leftists predominate. Endowed institutions such as foundations and museums likewise often face no test other than what like-minded people find ‘exciting’ and what enables those who run these institutions to get the heady feeling that they are ‘making a difference.’ Thomas Sowell
Dr. Thomas Sowell, Economist and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, California, Forbes September 8, 1997