Cynthia Burack is a first-generation college grad and retired academic. She lives in Washington, DC, her chosen hometown.

“Cynthia Burack has produced one of the sharpest accounts of left-wing group-think at contemporary American universities. Part memoir and part critique, her book shows how academic liberals have too often adopted the same crude intolerance and anti-intellectualism that plagues the American right. Whether you agree with her or not, you should engage Burack’s argument. And if you don’t, you will prove her point."—Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of History of Education, University of Pennsylvania"With brilliant analysis and wry humor, Cynthia Burack diagnoses how a powerfully dogmatic strain of Illiberal Progressivism came to dominate North American universities—not just through various non-empirical and ideologically-oriented 'studies' programs in the social sciences and humanities, but through an ever-expanding HR bureaucracy dedicated to overseeing stultifying speech codes, bias reporting, and punitive investigations into faculty members who dare to deviate from the prevailing orthodoxy. Unsparingly critical of authoritarians on both the 'woke' Left and the populist Right, Burack argues that the academy urgently needs to embrace intellectual diversity, free inquiry, value pluralism, and institutional neutrality—before these necessary reforms end up being imposed upon it."—Michael Dudley, Heterodoxy in the Stacks contributor and author of The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy

Cynthia Burack is a first-generation college grad and retired academic. She lives in Washington, DC, her chosen hometown.

“Cynthia Burack has produced one of the sharpest accounts of left-wing group-think at contemporary American universities. Part memoir and part critique, her book shows how academic liberals have too often adopted the same crude intolerance and anti-intellectualism that plagues the American right. Whether you agree with her or not, you should engage Burack’s argument. And if you don’t, you will prove her point."—Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of History of Education, University of Pennsylvania"With brilliant analysis and wry humor, Cynthia Burack diagnoses how a powerfully dogmatic strain of Illiberal Progressivism came to dominate North American universities—not just through various non-empirical and ideologically-oriented 'studies' programs in the social sciences and humanities, but through an ever-expanding HR bureaucracy dedicated to overseeing stultifying speech codes, bias reporting, and punitive investigations into faculty members who dare to deviate from the prevailing orthodoxy. Unsparingly critical of authoritarians on both the 'woke' Left and the populist Right, Burack argues that the academy urgently needs to embrace intellectual diversity, free inquiry, value pluralism, and institutional neutrality—before these necessary reforms end up being imposed upon it."—Michael Dudley, Heterodoxy in the Stacks contributor and author of The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy

Cynthia Burack is a first-generation college grad and retired academic. She lives in Washington, DC, her chosen hometown.

“Cynthia Burack has produced one of the sharpest accounts of left-wing group-think at contemporary American universities. Part memoir and part critique, her book shows how academic liberals have too often adopted the same crude intolerance and anti-intellectualism that plagues the American right. Whether you agree with her or not, you should engage Burack’s argument. And if you don’t, you will prove her point."—Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of History of Education, University of Pennsylvania"With brilliant analysis and wry humor, Cynthia Burack diagnoses how a powerfully dogmatic strain of Illiberal Progressivism came to dominate North American universities—not just through various non-empirical and ideologically-oriented 'studies' programs in the social sciences and humanities, but through an ever-expanding HR bureaucracy dedicated to overseeing stultifying speech codes, bias reporting, and punitive investigations into faculty members who dare to deviate from the prevailing orthodoxy. Unsparingly critical of authoritarians on both the 'woke' Left and the populist Right, Burack argues that the academy urgently needs to embrace intellectual diversity, free inquiry, value pluralism, and institutional neutrality—before these necessary reforms end up being imposed upon it."—Michael Dudley, Heterodoxy in the Stacks contributor and author of The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy