>...(1) academics are disproportionately Left of Center, and (2) the >disproportion is self-perpetuating because academics get to choose their >colleagues and successors. Is anybody on this list seriously challenging >assertion (1)? With respect to assertion (2), I think the evidence is >primarly anecdotal, although it seems hard to dispute.
>David Shemano< It's important to have affirmative action NOW so that leftists and liberals get jobs as (well-paid) business and engineering professors. They are clearly underrepresented in those fields. there's a self-fulfilling nature of any academic in-group, due to the institution of tenure (or, equivalently, that of partnership in law firms). David, do you want to get rid of tenure, so that the admistrators have total power in academia? JD
