This just in…
Mar 29th, 2005 by Hugh
College Faculties A Most Liberal Lot, Study Finds (washingtonpost.com)
The most left-leaning departments are English literature, philosophy, political science and religious studies, where at least 80 percent of the faculty say they are liberal and no more than 5 percent call themselves conservative, the study says.
“In general, even broad-minded people gravitate toward other people like themselves. That’s why you need diversity, not just of race and gender but also, maybe especially, of ideas and perspective.”
In other words, the most left-leaning departments are those most amenable to a postmodern drift away from any notion of definite reality.
There is no shortage of jokes about the kid who goes to college to “find himself.” Perhaps these are the same people, now grown up… perhaps they only found themselves when they lost everyone and everything else. Or as one article I read recently put it, it’s “nihilism with a smile.”
Your college tuition hard at work, folks…
