I think there's more to it than "academics are hostile to conservatives". The conservative movement in this country is vehemently anti-intellectual. People lov

I think there's more to it than "academics are hostile to conservatives". The conservative movement in this country is vehemently anti-intellectual. People love to point to Trump but even George W Bush played dumb to appeal to his base. Add in a strongly capitalistic attitude among the american right, that smart ambitious people should work in industry and not in "ivory towers". Why would a fan of Ayn Rand take a government job for meager pay? Academics are probably biased against conservatives. But a conservative is biased against becoming an academic as well.