The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
I read the New York Review of Books. Every single f***ing article about "academic freedom" or "the crisis of the university" seems to be contractually obligated to include a paragraph (or more!) about how the university has become too ideologically homogenous or something similar. Even now!
Apr 21, 2025 11:56Personally I think it's totally defensible for the head of a meteorology department to say, "you can't work here unless you believe in climate change." That department is going to end up with zero conservatives in it but it's not the department that needs to change!
Putting aside the “substance” of their positions, and ironically, “conservatives” are agst DEI, which seems to be what they’re arguing in favor of in this context.
This!
