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In academia, the herd of independent minds drives on. Forty-four percent of the professoriate calls itself "liberal." Another 46 percent are "moderate," while 9 percent say they are conservative. These numbers, collected by sociologists Neil Gross and Solon Simmons in "The Social and Political Views of American Professors," which is perhaps the most extensive survey of the professoriate's political views in decades, show the alternate universe that is the American campus today. The academy's self-image features a moderate-conservative majority, and the faculty lounge is a place of real political diversity.
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