[goldstategop]

Formally universities are not supposed to ask. But if you're a Ph.D candidate you can be sure your political preferences are known long before you apply for a position, and if you're deemed to be insufficiently Marxist or anti-American, you can forget about tenure. In a way the enemies of freedom have turned our institutions of higher education into a bastion to assault our free society. Its no accident to say the barbarians are right inside our ivory towers.

[familyofman]

"if you're a Ph.D candidate you can be sure your political preferences are known long before you apply for a position"

How would a Ph D. candidate in Math, Engineering, Business...have his political views known? Political Science or Econ. I can see - but not everyone.

How about all businesses not just universities require you to disclose your political affiliations prior to employment - I don't think so.