re: Why most academics lean left

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This leaves out an important additional reason: the tenure structur

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This is a big one that hasn't been mentioned yet. Tenure structure bigly reinforces prevailing political and social views in the academy. It is perhaps not the reason why the academy leans left in general, but it is the most important reason why it went from a 70/30 or 60/40 split a generation or two ago to 95/5 or whatever it is today.

Someone else mentioned the post-modern creep that has touched just about every field outside the hard sciences and engineering. That's also a big one.