These universities have become echo chambers of liberal ideas, so much so that there are hardly any faculty members of Harvard who will admit to being conservative. If you identify completely with one extreme of the political spectrum, you can hardly hope that the other side will protect you.

This partisanship does have real consequences. The decline in the quality of Ivy League education gets discussed on HN a lot. I think it's due to the fact that their faculty is becoming increasingly divorced from reality. This could be a good wake up call for Harvard, if they would engage in a little bit of introspection.