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A RECENT article in The Economist (reprinted in The Australian on December 15) bemoaned the lack of political diversity in American universities. It contended: "Academe is simultaneously both the part of the US that is most obsessed with diversity and the least diverse part of the country." It pointed to a survey of more than 1000 academics that showed that Democrats outnumbered Republicans by something like seven to one in the humanities and social sciences. If the situation looks lopsided in the US, a country that has a large and relatively diverse university system, then it is nothing short of...

Here is their "About Us" page: About Campus Watch The Problem American scholars of the Middle East, to varying degrees, reject the views of most Americans and the enduring policies of the U.S. government about the Middle East.Examples: There may be a war on terrorism underway, but the scholars downplay the dangers posed by militant Islam, seeing it as a benign and even democratizing force.With only one exception, every American president since 1948 has spoken forcefully about the benefits to the United States from strong and deep relations with Israel. In contrast, American scholars often propagate a view of Middle...