As you probably know, liberal academia in the US is in a free-fall. College campuses have become “safe spaces” where free speech is prohibited, “micro-aggressions” and “trigger warnings” are everywhere, and infantilized students can’t handle difficult ideas lest they be traumatized. Here are a couple of good articles:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427797/columbia-university-core-curriculum-not-traumatizing

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427756/yesterdays-giants-todays-dwarves