It is a fairly uncontroversial statement at this point: universities and campuses in the Western world are dominated by the left. From the administrators, to the faculty, to the organizations and clubs, to the student body itself, post-secondary institutions are, for the most part, majority left-leaning in their makeup.
Writing for the Harvard Crimson, Natalie L. Khan looks at the results of a question on political leanings in The Crimson’s 2021 Faculty Survey and writes on the ideological diversity, or lack thereof, amongst the school’s teaching ranks.
The results are perhaps unsurprising, but still, in the big picture, shocking nonetheless. Of the 236 respondents to the poll amongst the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a mere three percent identified as “somewhat” or “very conservative.” In contrast, 78 percent identified as “somewhat” or “very liberal.”
It is worth examining this increasing trend of ideological homogenization because, as the article quotes from a faculty member of the Economics Department, this is a worsening trend. And, he says, “what’s true for the university is true in a larger dimension with respect to the broader society and politics.”
