I like this piece, Liberal Bias is A-OK, by J.D. Porter, who is a senior at Columbia University.
If conservatives truly feel under-represented in the academy, their only option is to do better work. They shouldn’t allow themselves to be coddled by some sort of regulatory system looking out for their welfare. It’s a mistake, however, to say that we even need more conservative voices at Columbia. We need good scholarship and good pedagogy, and not lip service to an ideology just because it’s popular. That may mean we hire conservatives, or, if history is any indication, it more likely won’t. If we judge professors purely on their work, however, conservativism will have the place in academia that it deserves.
He hoists conservatives by their own petards. Anyway, if the campuses are indeed liberal (that is only a teeny tad true, owing to the fact that most PHD’s are liberals), then conservatives ought to just suck it up and get in there and demand more conservative professors. The market will supply. That the David Horowitz crowd instead relies on intimidation and runs to the legislature seeking repressive legislation speaks volumes.
Piece of Mindful 