Buried in a story about baby-boomer profs retiring:
In general, information on professors’ political and ideological leanings tends to be scarce.
Clearly, more research needs to be done: the Ford Foundation should fund a multi-year study to ascertain the “political and ideological leanings” of professors. That’s one of life’s great mysteries.
Update: Of it’s not that great a mystery. A reader points me to a story from The Washington Post which begins: “College faculties, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean further to the left than even the most conspiratorial conservatives might have imagined, a new study says.” Who knew?
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3 Comments
1. Robert Mills:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/arts/03camp.html
There is this on the other side. In all truth, I think that postmodern thought and the overwhelming liberal domination in the academy are going to be a blip in history. Its presence is a product of a generation that grew up in the intellectual graveyard of the 1960s and my own generation (who are currently seeking academic posts or will be in the next 5 or so years) seems far less inclined to swallow it then regurgitate it to the generations after us. Postmodernism’s own contradictions, especially, make it unable to survive as a serious doctrine.
Jul 3, 2008 - 8:49 am 2. Robert Mills:Ah, didn’t see the link to the NY Times article, just saw the update. All apologies.
Jul 3, 2008 - 9:42 am 3. Daniel:Other questions the NYTimes cannot come down on because information is scarce: Is water wet? Is ice cold?
Jul 3, 2008 - 10:11 am