To respond to my own first question: > Have they become more liberal? Academia has long been called liberal; I don't know that it has become more or less that

To respond to my own first question: > Have they become more liberal? Academia has long been called liberal; I don't know that it has become more or less that way. Also, liberal is a matter of definition and is relative to a degree; perhaps society has become more conservative. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13352697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13352697