Oh one other thing: >Faculty in fields like Biology and Physics are also overwhelmingly liberal, but departments generally know nothing about the political vie

Oh one other thing: >Faculty in fields like Biology and Physics are also overwhelmingly liberal, but departments generally know nothing about the political views of faculty candidates. One of interesting thing to keep in mind, is that while it's true that biology and physics professors also lean liberal, the ratios are inline with what the ratios have historically been in academia as a whole. They are closer to 3:1 or 4:1. Fields like sociology or social psychology are closer to something like 20:1. A college student taking a sociology class is more likely to be taught by a Marxist than a Republican[0]! (Please don't tell me that the intellectual underpinnings of marxism are more correct than that of conservatism. I'll have an aneurysm.) [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/a-confession-of-liberal-intolerance.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/a-confessi...