Wow! So happy you wrote this, David. It's eerie how your anecdote as well as Milton Friedman's sound like they could have happened today, and not just in academia, but also media, entertainment, etc.
Interesting table, but I am not sure of its significance. It shows how monocultural Mamdani’s college was, and gives some perspective, which may be the only relevant point. But was this the 50 colleges with the most lop-sided ratio of faculty registered Democratic? Or was it the 50 or so demographically similar colleges to the one Mamdani attended? Or something else?And of all of those institutions, was no one registered Independent/NPA, or Green, or DemSoc, or whatever? Or was this just showing the D:R ratio, which might be just a small part of the faculty? I mean, suppose, in the US of Fantasy, there was a college where the D:R ratio was 100:0, but the rest of the 1000 member faculty was not registered to vote at all because there was no sufficiently liberty-oriented Government Candidate Support Association? Would the D:R ratio tell us much about campus culture?
The author of the study I cited notes that he chose the schools from the US News listing of the top liberal arts colleges. There were 66 colleges total, but various factors (such as some states not making voting records public) is why the author examined only 51. So with that context we can see that Bowdoin is among the worst, but there are some that are even more lopsided. I like your US of Fantasy! Or I guess you could say USF for short. Apparently a sizeable minority of professors are unregistered. I'm actually surprised so many are registered. I'd figure they know more people are conducting these surveys, and that would make them more inclined to hide their affiliations so as to avoid attracting attention. Based on other things I've seen (surveys and such), I suspect that those who don't register are more likely to break lefty. And the change over time is interesting too. It wasn't that long ago (mid 90s) that D:R ratios of 2:1 or 3:1 were quite common. So even with some of the complications we've examined, the directional change is still very great.
The term monoculture is problematic but I think some majors are overwhelmingly more liberal in terms of student and faculty. Some major fields these days intrinsically attract liberals , not conservatives because the subject matter is more geared to a liberal world view. But look at STEM fields: all numerically oriented majors from engineering to economics have decent balance of registered republicans to democrats. These are fields where ideology is irrelevant and even damaging to career success.
Yes, a recent analysis of Yale confirms your point about numerically oriented fields. Yale as a whole was imbalanced but far more so when it came to the social sciences and humanities.
No way. You really worked for Stossel? I'm a big fan of his. (Got at least 2 of his books.)
He strikes me as a good, classic reporter. Willing to push back and challenge his interview subjects but he does let them speak and reply. Even if he agrees with them he'll still play devil's advocate.
Would he was teaching and training more modern journalists.
He has a Trumpian ability to shape shift, thereby convincing people he has little in common with that he’s one of them. which is what makes him so dangerous-whether he’s actually ignorant or not.
I think New York needs to give him a chance. He seems to have a good ability to reach out to the other side in his campaign so I think he should be able to do that in office!
NONSENSE!!! HE'S A MUSLIM: Read the Qur'an and you will learn that Islam requires the DEATH of non-believers. If the non-believer is female, RAPE after RAPE after RAPE will be their REWARD. EVIDENCE PROVES THAT’S WHAT THEY DO!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Ted, Your piece brought back some memories. Delete if you don't want me hijacking.
https://davidrhenderson.substack.com/p/the-left-wing-echo-chamber-over-the
Wow! So happy you wrote this, David. It's eerie how your anecdote as well as Milton Friedman's sound like they could have happened today, and not just in academia, but also media, entertainment, etc.
Yes, isn't it?
Interesting table, but I am not sure of its significance. It shows how monocultural Mamdani’s college was, and gives some perspective, which may be the only relevant point. But was this the 50 colleges with the most lop-sided ratio of faculty registered Democratic? Or was it the 50 or so demographically similar colleges to the one Mamdani attended? Or something else?And of all of those institutions, was no one registered Independent/NPA, or Green, or DemSoc, or whatever? Or was this just showing the D:R ratio, which might be just a small part of the faculty? I mean, suppose, in the US of Fantasy, there was a college where the D:R ratio was 100:0, but the rest of the 1000 member faculty was not registered to vote at all because there was no sufficiently liberty-oriented Government Candidate Support Association? Would the D:R ratio tell us much about campus culture?
The author of the study I cited notes that he chose the schools from the US News listing of the top liberal arts colleges. There were 66 colleges total, but various factors (such as some states not making voting records public) is why the author examined only 51. So with that context we can see that Bowdoin is among the worst, but there are some that are even more lopsided. I like your US of Fantasy! Or I guess you could say USF for short. Apparently a sizeable minority of professors are unregistered. I'm actually surprised so many are registered. I'd figure they know more people are conducting these surveys, and that would make them more inclined to hide their affiliations so as to avoid attracting attention. Based on other things I've seen (surveys and such), I suspect that those who don't register are more likely to break lefty. And the change over time is interesting too. It wasn't that long ago (mid 90s) that D:R ratios of 2:1 or 3:1 were quite common. So even with some of the complications we've examined, the directional change is still very great.
The term monoculture is problematic but I think some majors are overwhelmingly more liberal in terms of student and faculty. Some major fields these days intrinsically attract liberals , not conservatives because the subject matter is more geared to a liberal world view. But look at STEM fields: all numerically oriented majors from engineering to economics have decent balance of registered republicans to democrats. These are fields where ideology is irrelevant and even damaging to career success.
Yes, a recent analysis of Yale confirms your point about numerically oriented fields. Yale as a whole was imbalanced but far more so when it came to the social sciences and humanities.
No way. You really worked for Stossel? I'm a big fan of his. (Got at least 2 of his books.)
He strikes me as a good, classic reporter. Willing to push back and challenge his interview subjects but he does let them speak and reply. Even if he agrees with them he'll still play devil's advocate.
Would he was teaching and training more modern journalists.
Yeah, he's a great guy. Very honest, very demanding, dissident thinker -- an excellent person to have as a boss and mentor.
Good piece, Ted. Nice analysis.
Thanks, David. I appreciate that
You're welcome, Ted.
Why is he so confident in his ideas, indeed…
He has a Trumpian ability to shape shift, thereby convincing people he has little in common with that he’s one of them. which is what makes him so dangerous-whether he’s actually ignorant or not.
Great post
Admit it you are jealous of Mamdani😆
well with his looks, charisma, etc of course I am!
I think New York needs to give him a chance. He seems to have a good ability to reach out to the other side in his campaign so I think he should be able to do that in office!
NONSENSE!!! HE'S A MUSLIM: Read the Qur'an and you will learn that Islam requires the DEATH of non-believers. If the non-believer is female, RAPE after RAPE after RAPE will be their REWARD. EVIDENCE PROVES THAT’S WHAT THEY DO!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬