Your Professor: Critical Thinker, Or Tribal Moralist? 

    According to social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, the American professorate displays a "statistically impossible lack of diversity" and is overwhelmingly liberal in its political orientation. As a result, rather than being sanctuaries for  astute critical thinking, campuses are homes of  "'tribal-moral communities' united by "sacred values" that hinder research and damage their credibility"  – and force conservatives among them to stay "in the closet."  Has he got a point, or is this just more mindless right wing cant? >More

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