Neil Gross's work is crucial for anyone who cares about higher education and who also cares about the facts. -- Louis Menand Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? offers a thoughtful, rigorous, and readable study of the causes and effects of liberal attitudes among college professors. Reading this book gave me an entirely new way of thinking about the interactions between political views, social attitudes, and life choices. Gross's book deserves a wide hearing. -- Andrew Gelman, Columbia University
Neil Gross is Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Colby College.
Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?
offers a thoughtful, rigorous, and readable study of the causes and
effects of liberal attitudes among college professors. Reading this
book gave me an entirely new way of thinking about the interactions
between political views, social attitudes, and life choices.
Gross deserves a wide hearing. -- Andrew Gelman, Columbia
University
In this engaging book, Neil Gross uses a dizzying range of
evidence to take apart many common beliefs. He shows--among many
other things--that professors are less liberal than pundits claim,
that today's younger professors are less radical than older ones,
and that it is not so much that academia turns people liberal as
that liberals are attracted to academia. The book cements Gross's
reputation as one of the most interesting sociologists of his
generation. -- Mario Small, University of Chicago
A major contribution to debates about the politics of academia.
Neil Gross blends cutting-edge research with old-fashioned
reason to explain the cultural and economic forces that send
liberals into the professoriate. This is a smart, surprising, and
important book. -- Eric Klinenberg, New York University
Neil Gross's work is crucial for anyone who cares about
higher education and who also cares about the facts. -- Louis
Menand, Harvard University
Persuasive...It offers a thoughtful riposte to ad hominem attacks
on contemporary universities as hotbeds of radicalism. * Publishers
Weekly *
A sound analysis of the sharply partisan issue of political
imbalance among university faculty. -- Elizabeth Hayford * Library
Journal *
[Gross] registers clearly the overwhelming ideological slant
of higher education...[His thesis] leaves conservative critics with
a disarming irony, though: The more critics expose liberal
indoctrination and intolerance, the more they reinforce the image
of academia that makes young conservatives shun it. -- Mark
Bauerlein * Weekly Standard *
Neil Gross's Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do
Conservatives Care? enters the ongoing debate about the
position and role of the academy in American life at a high-stakes
moment...Until now, the characterization of a staunchly liberal
professoriate has annoyed progressives and disturbed conservatives,
while remaining a curiously underexamined trope in American
political life. As Gross's study shows, it is a product of
long-standing misguided assumptions and overdrawn conclusions about
American academics' politics. Gross offers an impressive range of
hard social scientific data to soften the hyperbole and help set
straight the terms of our debate. -- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen *
American Prospect *
Gross does what really good scholars do--namely, research,
research, research. Through reflection on existing data and that
gathered from studies of his own devising, he concludes that the
liberalism of the academy is not nearly so pronounced as alarmists
would like to believe, nor is it uniform. -- James Williams *
PopMatters *
The question is not whether college professors are
liberal...The much more interesting question is why college
professors are liberal, and sociologist Neil Gross has
studied it for years. His results are worth considering...Gross is
at his best when he's explaining his surveys and experiments and
using them to evaluate competing theories of professors'
liberalism--and fortunately, he spends a lot of time doing that.
Readers will gain a nuanced understanding of the subject, and
conservative readers in particular will find many interesting
nuggets here. -- Robert Verbruggen * National Review *
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