A non‑conservative, mainstream academic (Lee Jussim) publicly co‑signs a conservative‑led higher‑ed reform statement and explains why its proposals aren’t worse than the status quo. This suggests reform energy is coalescing beyond partisan lines around shared concerns about politicization and academic standards.
— If campus reform gathers heterodox and conservative support, it could move from culture‑war rhetoric to a viable governing coalition that changes university governance.
Ilya Shapiro, James R. Copland, Rafael A. Mangual
2026.01.14
68% relevant
Speakers in the episode discuss internal debates and the remaining hurdles for conservatives to achieve lasting legal change, which connects to the existing observation that campus reform efforts are coalescing across unexpected ideological lines and face practical governance barriers.
Jared Henderson
2026.01.07
48% relevant
Frey’s defense of liberal education and the very public dispute over the honors college invites the kind of heterodox coalition‑building described in that idea: reform of university governance and curricular priorities can attract allies across expected ideological lines if presented as institutional repair rather than partisan purge.
2026.01.05
85% relevant
Lee Jussim is himself named in the existing idea and the article documents decades of dissident warnings and a cross‑campus coalition of critics—concrete evidence that campus reform energy is not purely partisan and that heterodox academics warned of consequences now unfolding (mentions Rutgers AAUP email, list of warnings and historical articles).
2026.01.05
72% relevant
The author reports the heterodox coalition—once broadly aligned—has split into 'hawks', 'doves', and a 'mushy middle', which bears on the existing idea that campus reform can assemble heterodox coalitions; the article supplies on‑the‑ground evidence that the coalition is fragmenting under external political pressure (Trump), weakening that cross‑ideological project.
Law & Liberty Editors
2025.12.29
78% relevant
The collection aggregates voices across the conservative and mainstream center (forums featuring Yuval Levin, J. G. A. Pocock reflections, and defenses of curricular standards), matching the existing pattern where higher‑ed reform is being built through alliances across ideological lines.
Benjamin Storey
2025.12.01
80% relevant
The authors describe a politically mixed group of faculty and think‑tank scholars collaborating to teach conservatism without imposing an agenda—an example of the heterodox, cross‑ideological coalition the existing idea predicts and documents.
2025.10.07
100% relevant
Jussim writes that Chris Rufo asked him to sign the Manhattan Institute statement; he agreed and rebutted critics, despite reservations.