The Boghossian Report: "Richard Hofstadter (1963) traces American skepticism about the role of university professors in public life to evangelical Protestant suspicion of the 'learned clergy' during the Great Awakening of the 18th century. In more recent history, the idea reached a high-water mark during the McCarthy era and another in the 1980s with the publication of best sellers like Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students (1987) and Roger Kimball’s Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education (1990). "