Conservatives in the Closet

At Minding the Campus, Dr. Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, has published a review of Jon Shields and Joshua Dunn’s new book, Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University.

Secret Lives of Conservative Scholars

Shields and Dunn interviewed 153 professors in economics, political science, sociology, history, philosophy, and literature, all of whom self-identified as “conservative” or “libertarian.” From those interviews they distilled a strategy for survival in Academe, if you are “conservative.”

Hide your views until you are tenured!