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Is it time to turn a liberal weapon against liberalism? Lawyer Kenneth Lee argues in The American Enterprise that conservatives should use the threat of anti-discrimination lawsuits to break the liberal dominance of academia.
Surveys by the magazine show that at major universities, professors who belong to parties of the left vastly outnumber professors who belong to parties of the right. At Stanford, for instance, humanities and social-science departments have 151 professors registered as members of a liberal party (Democrat, Green, and so forth) and only 17 professors registered as members of a conservative party (Republican, Libertarian). At UCLA, it's 141 to 9. At some universities, entire departments have no Republicans.
"These stark statistics do more than just confirm what conservatives have always suspected," reports Mr. Lee. "They potentially may allow Republicans to pursue legal action against universities by using the logic and law of the civil rights movement." In lawsuits against companies, plaintiffs claim that a relative lack of minority employees proves discrimination. By that logic, he writes, "the gross under-representation of conservatives in university faculties lends credence to the view that schools have in plain fact discriminated against Republican academics."

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August 31, 2002, Vol. 17, No. 33

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