Tch, Tch, Tch

Former literature professor and weblogger Daniel Green of The Reading Experience is on the warpath (or as much on the warpath as a former academic is capable) against the sub rosa or stealth conservative bias he perceives in the links provided by that indispensable, daily updated online index to online articles for the brainy, Arts & Letters Daily (which title Dr. Green, um, cleverly parodies in the title of his post: "Farts and Fetters — Daily").

Concludes Dr. Green:

The Arts & Letters Daily worldview seems to perceive all truly contrarian opinions and practices, whether in politics or art and literature, as the collective expressions of radical leftists and dippy postmodernists. They are approached not usually with outright scorn but with mock surprise (Can you believe these people?) and unconcealed sarcasm. Usually they are conflated, as if political dissidents and artists were all members of the same infernal club, always conspiring to undermine Western values and American hegemony.

What's that? You mean to say they're not? (The preceding question directed at both the above conclusions.)

RTWT here.