John Ellis Makes a Case for Intellectual Diversity

Ashley Thorne

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  • March 30, 2010

"A lack of intellectual diversity hurts both left and right," contended John Ellis in a statement last week to the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education of the California Legislature. John Ellis is president of the California Association of Scholars.

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