The conservative thinker challenging American universities

John Leo, a longtime journalist and columnist, has set his sights on the U.S. higher education system

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John Leo doesn't believe in Fat Studies. He knows they exist; as a keen observer of the trends in higher education, he's followed the proliferation of special interest fields such as fat, disability, and transgender studies for the past 25 years. What bothers Leo is not that special interest studies exist, but that they're considered scholarship.

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