The self-satire is almost too much. Naming a Univeristy of Chicago research center after Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman has upset some of the faculty:
In a letter to U. of C. President Robert Zimmer, 101 professors — about 8 percent of the university’s full-time faculty — said they feared that having a center named after the conservative, free-market economist could “reinforce among the public a perception that the university’s faculty lacks intellectual and ideological diversity.”
You see, the largely progressive faculty “fear” that naming the center after a “conservative” economist would imply a lack of intellectual and ideological diversity. It’s almost as if diversity doesn’t mean diversity…