[ClearCase_guy]

I see this as two sides of the same coin. I seriously considered a career in teaching. It's true the pay isn't great, but I thought it was adequate -- and I thought (since family is important to me) that the amount of time off would be a real plus. I was all set to go. That is, until my advisor took me aside and said that my values (conservative) would torpedo my career and that I would spend time and money preparing for a career that would never amount to anything.

I ended up pursing other career options. Because of worries over time and family commitments? Well, you could say that. But really I was worried about the bias.

[Tanniker Smith]

About the only thing that got me through my first couple of years in my teaching career was the extra time for my kids, instead of just taking a week off from the other job. My wife and I used to take separate vacations so we'd have more time off.

Now that the kids are older, I put in more time tutoring after school or doing summer school.

[DeweyCA]

Your concerns about bias were well-founded. One of my best friends is about to get tenured (he hopes), but he regularly talks about the crazy Libs in his department and he knows he has to be quiet about his conservative Christian views at the U of MN.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

What about Dr. Sean Hannity?

Sean Hannity is a media personality, not an working academic, he dropped out of New York University and received an honorary doctorate from Liberty University.

Which is to say, he went where the money and status are to be found.

In this sense he's an excellent example of the sort of choices the author of the paper are talking about, and it's pretty hard for me to imagine him doing academic research, submitting it to peer review, presenting and defending his concussion at academic conferences, and so on.