Kevin Tarr wrote:
>
> http://www.frontpagemag.com/Content/read.asp?ID=55
>
> The Center for the Study of Popular Culture released a report that
> documents the stunning bias against conservative viewpoints on college
> faculties and speakers platforms. At 32 elite colleges registered Democrats
> on the faculty outnumbered Republicans 10-1. At two of the schools �
> Bowdoin and Wellesley � the ratio was 23-1.
How about the following explanation for the phenomenom?
There are two main reasons that most college professors are liberal.
1) (Independence) They are curious and intelligent enough that they
have thought about their politics, so they are not simply copying
the political viewpoints they grew up with.
2) (Poverty) They are not very interested in making money, or they
wouldn't have chosen an academic career.
The argument goes that there is a strong self-selection
effect at work. Almost all the Republicans who could be academics
are making money in business, leaving the academic jobs to the
Democrats.
See, no anti-conservative bias needed!
---David
Devil's Advocado
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