There’s a beacon of light in the academic world. With political indoctrination replacing education on campuses, free-thinking professors resisted by founding the Heterodox Academy. “We share a concern about a growing problem: the loss or lack of ‘viewpoint diversity,’  their site says. “When nearly everyone in a field shares the same political orientation, certain ideas become orthodoxy, dissent is discouraged, and errors can go unchallenged.” They’ve compiled a terrific ranking system for colleges and universities. Schools with high scores are the ones you should apply to if you want to maximize your odds of attending a school that welcomes intellectual

Governor Rauner on Tuesday accused WBEZ of discontinuing an “Ask the Governor” segment with him because “it’s really more of a Democrat station.” The Chicago Sun-Times responded with an editorial headlined, “Going down ‘fake news’ low road, Gov, is bad for democracy.” Rauner has never run around shouting “fake news,” says the Sun-Times, “until now.” The editorial goes on to more broadly condemn complaints about “fake news” by Trump and others, which they equate with Rauner’s comments. The trouble is, Rauner didn’t shout “fake news.” He said no such thing. He didn’t even use the term. He just said he thought