The report is hardly surprising. In my book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discuss these arguments to justify the current levels of intolerance and orthodoxy in higher education.
As we have discussed for years, universities have been effectively cleansing their ranks of Republicans and conservatives.
Many departments no longer have a single Republican faculty member in this academic echochamber.
A Georgetown study found that only nine percent of law school professors identify as conservative at the top 50 law schools — almost identical to the percentage of Trump voters found in the new poll.
There is little evidence that faculty members are interested in changing this culture or creating greater diversity at schools. In places like North Carolina State University, a study found that Democrats outnumbered Republicans 20 to 1.
Not long ago, I had a debate at Harvard Law School with Professor Randall Kennedy on whether Harvard protects free speech and intellectual diversity.
Kennedy rejected the notion that the elite school should strive to “look more like America.”
It is not just that schools like Harvard “do not look like America,” it does not even look like liberal Massachusetts, which is almost 30 percent Republican.
The Harvard Crimson has documented how the school’s departments have virtually eliminated Republicans. In one study of multiple departments last year, they found that more than 75 percent of the faculty self-identified as “liberal” or “very liberal.”
Only 5 percent identified as “conservative,” and only 0.4% as “very conservative.”
Consider that, according to Gallup, the U.S. population is roughly equally divided among conservatives (36%), moderates (35%), and liberals (26%).
So Harvard has three times the number of liberals as the nation at large, and less than 3% identify as “conservative” rather than 35% nationally.
Among law school faculty who have donated more than $200 to a political party, a breathtaking 91 percent of the Harvard faculty gave to democrats.
The student body exhibits the same biased selection. Harvard Crimson previously found that only 7 percent of incoming students identified as conservative. For the vast majority of liberal faculty and students, Harvard amplifies rather than stifles their viewpoints.
This does not happen randomly. Indeed, if a business reduced the number of women or minorities to less than 5 percent, a court would likely find de facto discrimination.
Again, universities have shown no serious commitment to ideological diversity. Faculty members have little incentive to add dissenting voices to their ranks. Moreover, faculty are now arguing against such ideological diversity.
Likewise, some sites, such as Above the Law, have supported the exclusion of conservative faculty. Senior Editor Joe Patrice defended “predominantly liberal faculties” by arguing that hiring a conservative law professor is akin to allowing a believer in geocentrism to teach at a university.
Nothing is likely to change so long as donors continue to blindly fund these programs and ignore the obvious intolerance for opposing views.
For now, most Yale departments have succeeded in creating a safe space for the ideologically intolerant.
Yale has finally achieved liberal nirvana. According to a recent report from the Buckley Institute, there is now not a single Republican found across 27 of 43 departments at Yale University. In a nation roughly evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats (with a slight advantage to the GOP), only 3 percent are Republicans across all Yale departments.
My university was excellent, at the time, for getting people into medical school. I got my degree and then went on to Med School and never returned to my university of gave them money. Nothing there ever really translated into real life. It was only a means to an end. My Med School was totally different and I have returned there many times for reunions and meetings and given money also.
It’s more important to have good parents who set you on a path of independence, self control, learn that in the short term sacrifice can lead to later great success. Pick and chose what you find useful in college and ditch the rest if it does not provide reality and useful knowledge. But keep learning. You probably learn 95 % of what is real knowledge from your parents and your life experiences. I include medical school as a life experience because you learn some scholarly material but much is on the job training in a limited and controlled amount with your teachers right there to help and guide. Residency and fellowship is the same just more intense.
You have reality right there at your side with scholarship on the other side as you meld them into your experience and make your judgements.
What year 1890?
LAME AS USUAL FOR ANON!! ANON is a 10 year old!
This shows how important it is for liberals to control the school system. Anyone able to bring all sides to the table and talk will be eliminated (think Charlie Kirk). They know that if they allow honest conversations they will lose – their ideology is threatened by reason.
Question please. What is an honest conversation?
Question please. What is an honest conversation?
Please indeed: you are far more entertaining when a circus ringmaster has you perched on a stool, barking and clapping your flippers while balancing a beach ball on your nose.
Sealioning:
Sealioning is a form of adolescent trolling where someone persistently demands answers to insincere questions to provoke a response, often pretending to seek a civil debate while actually trying to exhaust or frustrate others with no intention of real discourse. This behavior is characterized by a facade of politeness and a refusal to acknowledge previous answers.
Often used as a tactic by whining Democrats in online forums and blogs
Imagine that. Another so called ivy league university, purging anyone who is not a liberal. Why would anyone want to go to these schools full of such intolerance? Pay all that money, just to get indoctrinated? And do not forget grade inflation! Did they really earn that grade? Can they really do “A” worthy work?
@Upstate
You know they can’t! The most expensive child care in the country is actually spelled ‘university’.
Intolerance? What makes yo say that? Intolerance is exhibited here every day, all day.
Funny how people here think they’re tolerant.
YO?? LOL
My God man are you really that blind?
Over and over again you shows contempt for college and university graduates. Obviously you never were intellectually outfitted for higher education. You said so yourself in previous comments.
You could not be more wrong. I have great respect for people like GEB, OldManFromKS, Lin, HullBobby, the good professor and many more. I hold contempt to those who would hold contempt for anyone not holding illiberal ideals, just as the good professor points out the case of Yale.
And as we have seen the degree of grade inflation at other so called ivy league universities, one has to question if the graduate has actually mastered the material that their diploma claims they have. Did they really get a “A” grade? Or did they just pay a lot of money to get passed along, as we see in public education schools in Chicago or Baltimore?
As GEB noted above, many years ago, higher education actually meant something. Now, many are questioning the value of higher education.
@Anoynmous
Only someone who deludedly believes they were ‘intellectually outfitted’ at a university (if you didn’t have it in some capacity before arriving, you probably didn’t have it leaving, either – there was a time when such people simply flunked out – no more) would post such nonsense. Upstate’s *rebuttal* is more salient and confident than your day-long comment Tourette’s syndrome in total. But you do you.
It’s like Sherman’s march to the sea only torching US institutions of higher learning instead of Geargia.
Get the hook out of your brain.
As expected in an indoctrination system that has little to do with real education…
Indoctrination? When usual used that word implies unwanted or unexpected action. But!
Are you implying those kids going to Yale have no idea what they are about to encounter?
YES!
I would like to give kudos to the trade schools. They do not discriminate on political party or ethnicity. The workforce in the trades is comparative to the national population with perhaps a little more towards minorities. In my opinion this is the best tool for removing discrimination form society as you work with and have to trust your co-workers in some cases with your life. In addition, as some of the student’s find their college degrees worthless, the tradesman will be working, earning and living what the college kid yearned for and their patents had hoped for.
@longgreyhair
I think so too. The work in trades pays well and an algorithm can’t do it. Our universities are a bad joke, with only the ‘academics’ themselves being a worse one.
James,
GM just announced it plans to expand it apprenticeship program.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/inside-gms-242m-push-rebuild-americas-skilled-trades-workforce
@Upstate
That’s awesome. 👍🏼
Trade schools! Now that’s what this country needs.
I think Trump recently EO’d an action to give trade schools monies from the DOE, instead of to unis.
GW NONE TOO PLEASED
So that’s a problem? Its human nature to consort with like minded. Student body? Guessing they’re 80% liberal. This blog, I guess its 99% MAGA. Again, so what’s the problem?
If you think this blog is 99% MAGA, I don’t think you understand what you are reading or MAGA. Nothing personal, just saying . . . as you are.
Just because that Anonymous guy makes 75% of the posts does not mean we all agree with him.
@Amish Warrior
In that particular instance, pretty sure *no one* agrees with them. They are just a troll, they likely don’t believe half of their nonsense themselves.
Well James the same can be said about you inert contributions. Do you think using a fake name here gives you any more credulity than an anon?
DF ANON IS BACK AGAIN!!
James,
The annony moron is just making useless noise. Just scroll past.
Do you ever reread the nonsense you post?
Well, stupidity is certainly an amish quality. Do you think just one anon “guy” posts 75% .i.e, 20, 30, 40 a day, of the anon comments here?
Then come up with a screen name! TOO LAZY??
Amish Warrior,
And of those 75% of anonymous comments, 98% of them are useless.
And of those farmer comments, 100% of them are useless. Fixed it. You’re welcome.
So what are they saying here that is not 99% MAGA related?
What does that have to do with Liberal teachers???? BUT BUT MAGA???
99% MAGA… I’d say so too. Not the Turley opinions, but based on the derangement of the commenters.
TDS infected ANON!! Talk about deranged!!!
The analogy you make is a strange one…The only comment I would have is they can do whatever they like, but they should lose all federal funding. Furthermore, any institution regardless of political leanings, should not receive any taxpayer dollars…..
Funny, cry for diversity based on color, sex (or claims of being some sex), ethnic group, etc. Everything but opposing views because they hurt my tush. Thanks for the morning laugh at “intellectual” honesty from a nob.
Any you say? So what’s the difference between what you preach and what Yale preaches?
No money for liberals because you think libs are closed minded.
Ever read the comments here?
Comparing comments here and Liberal teachers?? HUH? A mind is a terrible thing to waste(yours) ANON!!
Your question is so silly, it does not deserve an answer.
Reality is the final arbiter … and we are seeing it assert itself in monolithic academic institutions. Often it takes a while, the dam will sometimes hold for a very long time, but the time it takes speaks not only to the strength of the mass it contains, but also, when it finally gives way, to the size of the burst.
Reality is the final arbiter … No it is not. Your reality is not my reality.
Reality is what the majority of people perceive it to be
So you’re saying a majority creates reality? You’re certainly not a philosophically trained person.
“You’re certainly not a philosophically trained person.”
Or he is — in modern philosophy.
Stupid reply.
Conservative reality: There are two biological sexes, with some cases of genetic abnormalities or mental confusion.
Illiberal reality: Yesterday, I was a man! Today, I am a woman! Tomorrow, I will be a unicorn! There are 97 different genders!
Thank goodness Yale is at the Leading Edge of Bizzaro World! Without that Wrong-Way Compass how could the rest of the World know which way to turn 180 degrees away from! Make sure we ask them how the weather is at the bottom of the pit of hell they have ventured into!
The only ones left are Marxist.
“. . . only 3 percent are Republicans across all Yale departments.”
What ever happened to the Left’s mantra that statistical imbalance (in law enforcement, bank loans, admissions) proves discrimination?
Nevertheless, we continue to support these schools with grants, scholarships and tax exemptions. That needs to change.
Who is “we”? Not me I hope
What a wonderful echo chamber they have constructed, completely ignoring common sense. For those in academia, I gift to you at Christmas time, the Common Sense Checklist.
You can do anything you want, at anytime you want
without asking permission. However, You SHALL
ask yourself these 4 questions. The answers to all 4
questions MUST be YES. If you answer
HONESTLY any question with a NO, then you
cannot do it.
1. Is it SAFE?
2. Is it LEGAL?
3. Is it MORAL?
4. Does it MAKE SENSE?
WARNING: Failure to answer each question
honestly may result in embarrassment, loss of
finances, loss of freedom, or loss of life.
THE PARADOX. I’ve always enjoyed the basic paradox that over 90% of faculty at these institutions live by. Many of the departments at these colleges are undeniably academically excellent, and they protect their status by hiring only the best people they can find. However, they will vote for a political candidate with professional credentials (e.g., Kamala Harris) at such a low level that they would never hire an academic with equally low credentials if one applied to their own department.
RISK AVOIDANCE. If I were a mouse living in a field of rattlesnakes, I would do my very best to lie as low as possible to avoid being noticed. This points to the nature of the 90% figure. It is doubtful the true number is that high, with the more conservative-leaning professors keeping their heads down at all times. The things we do to protect our careers.
The Institutions of higher learning are the only places that these self anointed “experts “ in their discipline can make six figure salaries, acquire a job that they can’t be fired from all while injecting their political views and beliefs on impressionable young minds. Gut them and make education affordable again for American students.
Kind of like being a straight white male Christian in the workforce today huh?
Not at all. Yales’ is political.
And the workplace hiring isn’t?? DUMB ANON
hiring only the best people they can find.? No at all. Hiring is a political act at collages and universities. Expertise you say? Look at what harvard hired for a preident, Claudia somebody. Incompetent as they come. Again – politics.
@gdonaldallen
‘Many of the departments at these colleges are undeniably academically excellent, and they protect their status by hiring only the best people they can find.’
They really aren’t. Not anymore.
gdonaldallen says Many of the departments at these colleges are undeniably academically excellent, and they protect their status by hiring only the best people they can find.
Generally a pretty good post. However, when you are supposedly hiring only the best people, but first exclude anyone who doesn’t meet your personal political, DEI, whatever criteria… no claim can be made that you’re hiring the very best based on meritocracy.
Instead you’re hiring the best you can find that confirm with your personal biases and agenda. Just like Biden, who excluded anyone from being his VP nominee who wasn’t a black female, and anyone from SCOTUS who wasn’t a black female.
Those choices may very well have been the very best people for his immediate political purposes, but nowhere near the best people for the positions they filled.
These colleges are like Biden and the Democrats (which they essentially are): politics before substance.
“Kennedy rejected the notion that the elite school should strive to “look more like America.”” What country should schools look like RANDALL??? BOZO!
The good news, if there is any, about this is that college students, in general, remember very little of what they are “taught.” The academic world has always been exceptional and distinct from all other worlds. How often in my graduate and undergraduate years did I hear the expression, “in the real world….”! Even the professors would use this to separate what they were telling us from what we might expect “in the real world.”
The real world begins about 24 hours after graduation, and maybe before that for some. I sat next to a young woman on a plane some years ago, and as we talked, she told me that she was a law student at a prestigious law school in the DC area. She told me that she wanted to practice tenant-landlord law and fight for those who are forced out of their homes. She was dressed in very casual clothes, a sweatshirt, and jeans, and told me she was headed home to Chicago, where she would do a “make-over.” I asked her what that was, and she said that interviews with recruiting law firms were beginning soon, and she was told she needed to wear a dark suit or dress, and has never owned either. She also said that her long, dark hair might have to be trimmed. The whole thing sounded traumatic for her.
I often wonder if that young woman today is working at some big white shoe law firm in DC where they charge upwards of $1,000 per hour. True professionals have very little time or inclination for politics. Regardless of their professors’ politics, they soon learn the ropes and what they must do to survive in the real world. The professors, on the other hand, continue to live and survive in their make-believe worlds.
Lol. The real world begins when you realize that you are the one who has to make the decision about what you’re having for dinner every night for the rest of your life
DUMB REPLY ANON!! LOL!!!
I stopped giving to my alma maters Cornell and George Washington (sorry Professor) long ago. Even though I never went there I now donate to Hillsdale. I wish my kids and grandkids had gone there.
Similarly, having family at several Ivies over the years, like many do, we are totally frightened by any Ivy Medical Doctor who graduated after 2014. These doctors didn’t earn their way on merit, but had the bar lowered to accommodate them. Therefore we steer clear of any woke medical school from the woke to present era. I refused to use a surgeon who isn’t on the top of his/her game.
This is how fascists take over. They eliminate all opposing voices, one by one, until they control all levers of power. It’s how the intolerant left operates. Always has. Always will. Germany. Soviet Union. Cuba. Vietnam. North Korea. Cambodia. China. History repeats itself.
Your post reminded me of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s quiet expansion in 2020 into the monitoring and censuring social media posts allegedly claiming they were “disinformation”.
Imagine the uproar if universities were the reverse.