Liberal Bias Against Campus Conservatives Confronted:... -
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Published on: 10/18/2004
Last Visited: 10/18/2004
David French moderated a panel discussion between Carol Sobel, a First Amendment attorney, and Dr. Norman Hurley of the University of North Carolina.
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Hurley referred to academia,s chronic liberal bias as the ,politics of scholarship., He explained how professors are evaluated based on publication rates, and how most prestigious journals will only accept Left-leaning articles.Thus, conservative professors, effectively edited out of the top journals, appear less qualified than their liberal counterparts.Furthermore, graduate students are educated from the same liberal journals.According to Hurley, this also serves to bias the future of his profession.The UNC professor tried to emphasize the heated conflict between the liberal establishment and conservative scholars. ,This is a war,, exclaimed Hurley. ,[Liberals] see it as a war., To further dramatize his point, Hurley continued, ,I was actually physically assaulted at a cocktail party for my political views.,