It’s a given that the number of conservative professors on campus is very small. What few there are probably exist solely in the economics department or in a few cases the law school.
Lately, the idea of viewpoint diversity (sometimes called ideological diversity) has caught on among people on the right, especially as more woke politics is being exported by universities. This debate may have peaked last year when university presidents were called before congress to defend their handling of pro-Palestinian protests, but the basic idea that universities discriminate against conservatives has been around for a long time. Now there are efforts to do something about it in some states.
Calls for viewpoint diversity have been written into education laws proposed or passed in at least seven states, including Florida and Texas. In March, Indiana passed a law that curtailed diversity,…
