Wood observes the book is based on
Interviews with 153 professors in economics, political science, sociology, history, philosophy, and literature, all of whom self-identified as “conservative” or “libertarian.”Wood is critical of the books message to conservative academics: keep your views to yourself until, at the minimum, you get tenure and preferably until you have passed through assistant and associate ranks and reached the rank of professor. His organization wants social science and humanities faculty to be free to express non-progressive views without penalty, a desirable goal unlikely to be achieved anytime soon.
Conservative views are threatened in the fields surveyed. However, such views are likely to exist at least somewhat out in the open in other parts of the university: engineering, business, and sometimes law.
As you might imagine, capitalism is relatively popular in university business schools.Thousands of Wall Street Journals are delivered daily to business school faculty across the country, and even larger numbers of business students subscribe. Hat tip to Power Line for the link.
