that conservative ideologies thrive. Right wing organizations have led the assault, alleging that Marxist intellectuals have "politicized the academy "and imposed ideological constraints on free speech. Since an inflammatory September 1990 Washington Post op-ed piece by conservative columnist George Will launched the recent attack on PC in the national mainstream press, the arguments against political correctness and multiculturalism have become more widespread (and the motives for making them more diverse). But a small number of national organizations, funded by a handful of rightist foundations, has been laying the ideological and financial groundwork for years. Support for the right-wing attack comes from the ultra-rightist Reverend Sun Myung Moon, a variety of conservative publications and think tanks, numerous New Right luminaries, and even the White House. The familiar message of this network of conservative groups and intellectuals -- that the integrity of our universities (and, ultimately, Western civilization) is being undermined from within by radical intellectuals -- has become widespread indeed