Dwight D. Murphey

About the Author: Dwight D. Murphey is a lawyer and faculty member at Wichita State University in Kansas. He is the executive director of University Professors for Academic Order, a group that opposes political activity and social activism on college and university campuses.

It is one of the salient facts about American life—a fact that should never be lost sight of by anyone who hopes to understand our cultural slide and the neurotic nature of so much of our national discourse—that a deeply alienated intellectual subculture has long found expression not only within our universities but also within our dominant media culture and in the entertainment industry. Attempts were made by the media during the Gulf War to undermine the resolve...