It is widely recognized that government-supported academia lacks diversity of opinion and is generally intolerant of free-market or anti-government ideas.
Yet a new study reveals that the percentages of college professors who describe themselves as “far left” or “left” is actually INCREASING.
The percentages of all other groups is declining in academia. See here.
Although there are exceptions, popular discourse increasingly uses the term “conservative” as code for a distruster of the state. The terms “left,” “progressive” and “liberal” are increasingly used as code for those who embrace intrusive expansive government.
