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.
MAGA Whipsawed By Wackos
This week, Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, traveled to Nashville to meet with Candace Owens, a podcaster who has become the premier purveyor of conspiracy theories about her husband’s murder. If the summit was meant to convince Owens to back off her paranoid and fantastical speculations, it failed. On Thursday, Owens had on her show a man who claimed to have seen Erika Kirk at an army base the day before Kirk’s assassination, implying that Erika was somehow part of the plot against her husband. That plot also involves, in Owens’s telling, the French Foreign Legion, the federal government and leaders of Turning Point, Kirk’s organization, all somehow masterminded by demonic Zionists.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/opinion/candace-owens-erika-kirk.html
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Fine universities are in the business of teaching facts and science. Johnathan Turley understands universities have that mission.
Turley’s expertise is constitutional law. Would Johnathan Turley alter his teachings to accommodate whatever conspiracy theory the far-right is currently promoting? (Turley uses these columns for that purpose!)
A political movement built on conspiracy theories is not likely to produce fine academics. That may explain why Trumpers are NOT widely represented on university facilities. Universities can’t teach conspiracy theories. They can only teach facts.
Your comment is laughable.
More proof that liberals are incapable of persuading or winning debates on their positions. When you can’t do that you have to resort to eliminating any alternative views.
Anonymous says, December 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM: Three is not a single Republican in the House or Senate. They are all trumpists. Big difference.
Well, if you want to lead everybody off-topic today, I’ll offer them something off topic that’s actually factual:
Ex-FBI agent says DOJ has ‘slam dunk’ conspiracy case against Obama’s feds for election meddling
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/slam-dunk-ex-fbi-agent-says-bondi-has-clear-weaponization
Gilliam’s comments came the same week that Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced she believes there’s enough evidence to pursue a conspiracy case alleging the federal agents and state prosecutors conspired to infringe the civil liberties of Trump and his MAGA followers
“It’s the same cast of characters every time.” Gilliam said. “We had a tremendous amount of evidence that they were trying to create evidence and falsify evidence to go after Trump. Now we see that they’re trying to stop investigations and get rid of real evidence for the purpose of protecting the Clintons.
“I think this really does lead to bigger charges such as conspiracy to overthrow an election, I would say, potentially treason, if you could put that in there, but definitely sedition,” he added.
“This is a group of people that continue to come up in one case of building cases against Trump, falsifying information. But now it shows that the same people were conspiring to do a second overall crime, or second conspiracy to protect the political candidate that they agree with,” he said.
“I mean, honestly, if this was a mafia case, and we had this clear-cut of an example of a group of people committing two or more crimes for the furtherance of their political group or their enterprise. This would be a slam dunk case for any US Attorney. So I think this is something that they should look at,” Gilliam continued.
“This is years of individuals working their way up and getting together or being pulled up and put together so that they could conspire to stop one individual from becoming president and push the other person forward,” he added.
These institutions once known for academic integrity are so disgustingly woke they are producing activist Borg in place of educated youth that can do. There are no coincidences in this transformation to indoctrination over critical thinking education.
How long before conservatives on campus are required to wear a mute symbol on their outer garments?
Prof. Turley,
The co-Founder of the Federalist Society is a Yale professor. So, you should probably question your sources.
https://law.yale.edu/steven-g-calabresi
I know you are familiar with Calabresi. He’s served GOP presidents, Reagan and Bush Sr.
You really need to stop reposting the crap from the College Fix.
What rubbish.
Looks like that report says on only Yale professor.
Keith Whittington easily makes two.
https://law.yale.edu/keith-e-whittington
what makes you think whittington is Republican.
Look who he writes for, ” The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Reason, and Lawfare.” me no think so.
One visiting law professor at Yale Law School being a Republican is not at all inconsistent with anything in Professor Turley’s article. Read it again.
Consider: Blacks and Latinos make up about 1/3rd of the country. If Yale had not a single Black or Latino professor (at any level), I think quite a lot of people would conclude that there some pretty have prejudice and bigotry going on at Yale. Well, Republicans also make up about 1/3rd of the country. So why is that any different? I keep hearing about how faculties need to “look like the country”, but that appears to be only skin deep.
Anon, I grew up in a liberal Democrat family. I know how they think. The reason Yale has virtually no Republican faculty members is the same reason they don’t see that as a problem comparable to having no minority professors: they think every Republican is Adolph Hitler.
And they would be correct !!!!!!
Professor Turley, I can’t help but note that a number of your columns focus on the extreme cogniphobia that now characterizes elite ivy league schools. It’s enough to make one believe that you are actually trying to save them from themselves. Unfortunately, I cannot support you in that effort; let them continue die of their own intellectual bloat, and good riddance, I say.
X says: Hullbobby, along with one or two anonymouses whose only goal here is to engage in petty personal attacks and insults
Hullbobby: less than a half an hour before his whining complaint, here’s X offering his opinion on this article and his host Professor Turley:
This is arguably the stupidest article from Professor Turley. Really? I’m not sure if he’s being naive, ignorant, or simply peddling nonsense
X, The Democrat Liar Formerly Known As George, is the avatar of hypocritical lying Democrats, the Karen of a thousand Democrat complaints.
Defend yourself X – you’ve been called!!!
Is this Bullhobby, the slavering and rabid mongrel “Dog”?
“Is this Bullhobby, the slavering and rabid mongrel “Dog”?”
Is this X, the snivelling and whining communist Democrat Confederate Kluxxer formerly known as “George”?
you mean, that they were not successful in doing the 100% complete purge of diverse thought? they should try harder
“Study: Yale Has Eliminated All Republican Faculty from 27 Departments”
– Professor Turley
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And now the communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO, AINO) illegal alien invaders and their quisling allies intend to ELIMINATE ALL actual Americans as they conclude their campaign of conquest and “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
It is not possible for the invaders to assimilate; they must conquer.
They will simply become Americans, while genuine Americans will become “HERITAGE AMERICANS.”
Turley– “Yale has eliminated all Republicans from 27 departments.”
Better: Yale has eliminated all Americans from 27 departments.
The Ivy League has become the Kudzu League.
Dear Prof Turley,
“Trump-Yale University” .. . and the woke liberal Democrats will jump ship faster than fat cats on the Titanic.
Knowledge has no political bias.
*’Knowledge is a single point .. . but the ignorant have multiplied it.’
dgsnowden – 100% of the pregnant men agree.