Timothy Birdnow

Hat tip: Dean Mellor

"Sociologists were most likely to identify as left-wing, followed by Psychologists, Political Scientists, Law scholars and, lastly, Economists. In no discipline did right-wing academics outnumber or come close to balancing their left-wing counterparts. Far-leftists were most visibly represented in Sociology and in Australia while conservative academics were most strongly represented in Economics and in the United Kingdom, although they remained in a clear minority...

65% of academics who lean left feel [diversity] statements are a justifiable requirement for a job at a university that serves a diverse community of students, whereas 65% of academics who lean right see them as an ideological litmus tests that violates their academic freedom...

Whereas 82% of academics in the United States think ‘systemic racism is a problem in my country’, only 57% of the American public feel the same way. Academics are also far more likely to strongly agree, with 44% doing so versus only 27% of the public...

Right-leaning academics are far more likely than their leftwing counterparts to self-censor their political beliefs
on campus..."

https://li.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Legatum-Institute-Is-Academic-Freedom-Under-Threat.pdf

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