Following up on my earlier post point to Juan Cole's comments on conservatives in academia, I've just stumbled upon recent blogging along similar lines from Paul Waldman and Peter Levine, commenting on Jonathan Chait and Timothy Burke, respectively. Good stuff, and it's about time we started returning fire. My favorite graf comes from Chait:
Posted by Michael at December 15, 2004 01:18 AM | TrackBackA few weeks ago, a pair of studies found that Democrats vastly outnumbered Republicans among professors at leading universities. Conservatives gleefully seized upon this to once again flagellate academia for its liberal bias.
Am I the only person who fails to understand why conservatives see this finding as vindication? After all, these studies show that some of the best-educated, most-informed people in the country overwhelmingly reject the GOP. Why is this seen as an indictment of academia, rather than as an indictment of the Republican Party?