SALOMEH KEYHANI
New York
The writer is a member of the faculty at Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Department of Health Policy.
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I wish George F. Will were as concerned about the shortage of women and people of color in tenured and tenure-track faculty positions at U.S. colleges as he is about a perceived shortage of Republicans in those positions. Is he proposing affirmative action for Republicans?
Mr. Will singled out academia as a "one-party nation," but the one-party nation that concerns me is the one that our Republican-controlled executive and legislative branches are trying to establish in the United States by, for example, trying to abolish the filibuster, a venerable congressional check-and-balance mechanism. This seems infinitely more threatening than how a geology professor might have voted.
LISA MINNICK
Kalamazoo, Mich.
The writer is an assistant professor of English at Western Michigan University.
