Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?

by Neil Gross

Some observers see American academia as a bastion of leftist groupthink that indoctrinates students and silences conservative voices. Others see a protected enclave that naturally produces free-thinking, progressive intellectuals. Both views are self-serving, says Neil Gross, but neither is correct. Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? explains how academic liberalism became a self-reproducing phenomenon, and why Americans...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674059093
• ISBN13: 9780674059092
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.7"