>And the reason the left is practically universal in higher education the same reason why the left side of the spectrum is represented pretty much universally a

>And the reason the left is practically universal in higher education the same reason why the left side of the spectrum is represented pretty much universally across every other government in the developed world: Education forces you to consider things larger than yourself and your little tribe. No, it's mostly a historical artifact of academic hiring after the '60s, mixed in with the weird historical aberration that, starting with the Bush Administration, the Republican Party has consistently cut funding to academic grant agencies.