A lot less than 50 years ago it was possible to provocatively or earnestly hold that position in a history department at one of South Africa's top universities. Not to say that it would necessarily go unchallenged - because it is ridiculous 😂 - but that's the whole point, right? Today, I'd guess not so much.
I don't think they rant and rave about this at all anymore and I think it's the single biggest problem with teaching and learning today. I do have a problem with teachers teaching children their opinion (in general, and especially in isolation).
Quite funny because going through the system you're navigating now a few years earlier, I witnessed the change take place in front of me. From there's no right or wrong, only weak and strong arguments, to 'you can't say that', from a professor no less.
Keep in mind here also that we're talking about liberalisms - and that the classical liberal tradition is often quite far removed from the current woke liberal rot in our higher education system.
@CarbonBrief@rtmcswee@hausfath I thought some of your previous articles did a better job describing the misuse and overrepresentation of this model during a critical (recent) period in the scientific literature and more mainstream discussions of climate science - the one you linked, but also in Nature