"The Yale Daily News commissioned a study recently that revealed a rather startling figure: of the faculty at Yale, a mere seven percent identify as conservative.
To the more cynical among us, “seven percent” seems like an abnormally high number...Given the climate at your average American university, seven percent seems almost generous.
Our campuses have an ideology problem.
It’s not simply that more and more colleges have begun kowtowing to the absurdist, shrieking demands of hysterical student mobs (though that is a problem, and a significant one); it is, rather, than progressive professors and administrators increasingly have nobody with which to disagree, and nobody who will disagree with them.
We all experience this in our lives to certain degrees: most people have family, or friends, or both, with whom they are more or less ideologically aligned.
But a too-homogenous network of friends and family can be, in the end, intellectually poisonous, sort of like a vaccination in reverse.
You can very easily forget that there are other people with other opinions out there, individuals who might not see the world in just the same way you do.
And such political insularity can be intellectually and philosophically dangerous..."
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