# Professor Jonathan Haidt shares his views on viewpoint diversity on college campuses

1 September 13, 2017 The Wall Street Journal ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [*The Wall Street Journal*](http://www.wsj.com/video/opinion-video-what-at-stake-when-we-dont-teach-free-speech/E06C16BC-EAEB-4431-878A-694EEC7A066C.html) -- "'Universities are these amazing things going all the way back to Plato's academy outside of Athens with different norms -- norms of truth-seeking. And what's happening is, as American society is getting much more polarized, and the cross-partisan hatred is ramping up and ripping apart some institutions, because universities lean left, as many institutions lean one way or the other, there's ever more pressure on left-leaning views and the quality of thinking suffers."

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