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+ ViewpointAn Institution Can Lean Left Without Excluding the Right
Sarah Lawrence College has struggled with questions of free speech and genuine intellectual and ideological diversity over the past year. In the fall of 2018, I published an op-ed in the New York Times which argued that the extracurricular…Read More + Campus and CommunityFinding a Bit of Viewpoint Diversity in Higher Ed
Much of higher-education in the United States is dominated by politically active and overwhelmingly liberal college administrators – whose ranks are ever-growing, and influence ever-expanding. Yet even as warnings about the diminution of…Read More + Campus and CommunityThe Blue Shift of the New England Professoriate
In The New York Times’ Gray Matter section on July 3rd, I had the chance to elaborate on earlier work shared on the Heterodox Academy site where I first showed that faculty members in our colleges and universities have shifted ideologically…Read More + Research SummaryProfessors moved left since 1990s, rest of country did not
Every few years a debate re-emerges on the internet as to whether university faculty have truly shifted to the left, and if so, whether it matters. The debate has just flared up because of a graph that I made after some discussions about ideology in…Read More
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