This is an old thought I wanted to catalog a while ago. I had been reading a few screeds from conservative types bitching that academia has such a terrible liberal bias, blah blah, same shit they say about the media.
Then I come across a David Brooks column in which he talks about the liberal bias -- as you'd expect, in gentler terms than the real battle axes of the right -- and unintentionally, I think, revealed what's really going on here:
"Conservative professors emphasize that most discrimination is not conscious. A person who voted for President Bush may be viewed as an oddity, but the main problem in finding a job is that the sorts of subjects a conservative is likely to investigate — say, diplomatic or military history — do not excite hiring committees."
I think what's really at the heart of this is that most academic studies are simply by their nature more suited to liberal ways of thinking. Think, for instance, of a liberal and a conservative looking at poverty in a society. Conservatives tend to say it comes down to individual responsibility. Liberals tend to look at the root causes that lead to poverty. Ending the conversation by attributing things to individual responsibility is not going to lead to much academic investigation, and academics, like everyone else, know how not to run themselves out of a job. Liberals, though, will argue for decades about what exactly is the reason for pervasive poverty, becoming increasingly more obscure as they tunnel through the ivory tower.
In a rebuke to Brooks, Christopher Shea pointed out in the Globe Ideas section that the bias was subject-related: 'Brooks speaks broadly of bias in the "humanities or social sciences." But what about, say, economics departments? If you wander from a meeting of the Modern Language Association to an economics conference, you exchange a world in which "market logic" is a punchline for one in which it's mostly an article of faith.'
I think it interesting that this widespread bias, which I would agree does exist, is an emergent phenomenon caused by the sum effect of individual, non-coordinated actions by academics. And I would argue that it is a good thing, at least to some degree, because conservative attitudes would not lead to the deepest exploration of many of the humanities and social sciences.
Of course, it can go too far the other way. More on this to come soon.
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