Belmont Club's Wretchard the Cat riffs off Martin Peretz, offering a scathing rebuke of the bookless dogmatism of post-'60s Liberal groupthink.
A touchstone is the current witch-hunt swirling about Harvard President Larry Summers for proposing the notion that the unequal representation of women vs. men in the mathematical sciences may be primarily due to innate differences between the sexes, rather than to cultural repression. An eminently falsifiable hypothesis, proposed by a giant of academe... yet, rather than tackling the question on its merits, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences has mounted a public smear campaign aimed at deposing him.
As Wretchard says, Liberalism has lost its books because it has burned them.