re: Why most academics lean left

Just jumping in as a member of academia. There are plenty of us in the hard sciences and engineering that have a great deal of private industry research dollars. We didn't go into academia because we couldn't hack it in the real world, we went into it for the freedom. We're not all SJWs (though I'm embarrassed how many pedagogical trends are trying to bring more of that trash into the classroom), and many of us are even MAGA.


I try to make it very clear in my classes that nature, math, and all of science doesn't give two shits how you feel about anything, it comes down to the binary choice of does it work or not.