[untenured]

In my experience the weirdest aspect of the whole faculty-bias problem is the lengths to which many of my colleagues go to deny it. I think that a sort of groupthink mentality takes hold. If you hear your colleagues constantly reinforcing your views, you for natural cognitive reasons overestimate how widely held they are in the population at large. I have some documentation of and speculation on the reasons for the leftist domination of academia below.

Why Does the Academy Tilt Left?

[.cnI redruM]

You write an excellent blog. I guess, using an economic explanation, the demand for an exemption from the real world is way higher over on the left.