Why are there relatively few conservative college professors? It's because universities are dominated by tenured radicals, sixties holdovers who are intolerant of other viewpoints, who indoctrinate students into rigid PC orthodoxy, and who actively discriminate against conservative scholars in order to maintain their left-wing stranglehold on academia. Right?
Right???
Um, not so much. As the Chronicle of Higher Education puts it, new research shows that "conservatives just aren't into academe":
...liberal students reported valuing intellectual freedom, creativity, and the chance to write original work and make a theoretical contribution to science. They outnumbered conservative students two to one in the humanities and social sciences — which are among the fields most likely to produce interest in doctoral study. Conservative students, however, put more value on personal achievement and orderliness, and on practical professions, like accounting and computer science, that could earn them lots of money.
Self-selection. You know, choice. What could be more totalitarian than that?
Thanks to the Agonist for posting this.
