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Political Disparities in the Academy: It’s More than Self-Selection
American university professors are overwhelmingly politically liberal. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than by Mitchell Langbert’s (2018) recent study of faculty political party preferences at elite liberal arts colleges. In short,…read the full blog+ Opinion PieceWhat Color is the Dress?
Perhaps you recall the worldwide debate about the color of a wedding dress? If not, here is the short version. A picture of a wedding dress was posted online along with a question: What color is this dress? It seemed that when some looked at the…read the full blogAbout heterodox: the blog
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