The Rothman, Lichter, and Nevitte study purporting to show liberal dominance among university faculty is now available on-line. Here is the abstract: This article first examines the ideological composition of American university faculty and then tests whether ideological homogeneity has become self-reinforcing. A randomly based national survey of 1643 faculty members from 183 four-year colleges […]
Author Archive | Jonathan H. Adler
The Liberal Academy (Again):
The Washington Post reports on yet another study documenting the leftward tilt of the academy. The study is published in the March issue of The Forum, an online political science journal. The Post summarizes the study’s conclusions as follows: By their own description, 72 percent of those teaching at American universities and colleges are liberal […]
Bush’s Worst Appellate Nominee:
I have been a big fan of President Bush’s judicial nominations, especially to the appellate courts. By and large, President Bush has appointed extremely capable and distinguished attorneys to the appellate bench. Indeed, the lowest ABA rating of any of Bush’s initial nominees was received by Roger Gregory, a Clinton appointee Bush renominated in a […]
Pryor Appointment:
The press is reporting that President Bush will install Alabama Attorney General William Pryor as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit with a recess appointment. Readers of this space may recall that I am a Pryor fan (see here and here. I believe he has been unfairly maligned by […]
Covering the Judiciary Committee Memo “Scandal”:
Jack Shafer’s article in Slate on media reporting of the Senate Judiciary Committee memo scandal, highlighted by Eugene below, is definitely worth a read. He points out how much of the coverage, especially that in the Boston Globe, has been way overblown. Shafer’s bottom-line: The Senate staffers’ actions may have been wrong, and perhaps even […]