From today's WSJ:
By 2018, the ratio of Democrats to Republicans was 70 to 1 among faculty who taught religion, 48 to 1 in English, 17 to 1 in philosophy, history and psychology and 8 to 1 in political science, according to a study of the political affiliations of faculty at 51 of the top liberal-arts colleges. More than three quarters of Harvard’s faculty of arts and science now characterize their political leanings as liberal or very liberal, while less than 3% identify as conservative or very conservative, according to a Harvard Crimson survey.
The nation’s faculty are now the most politically homogeneous since the 1800s, when universities were divinity schools, according to Jonathan Haidt, a professor of ethical leadership at New York University’s business school who co-founded Heterodox Academy, which advocates viewpoint diversity on campus.
And then we get to the scary part:
Student tolerance for opposing ideas declined and attempts to disinvite or cancel speakers on campuses increased about fourfold since the year 2000, according to a database maintained by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. A majority of the speakers canceled have been conservative.
Today, 46% of college students agree that “it is sometimes appropriate to shout down or disrupt a speaker on my campus,” according to a 2023 Buckley Institute survey.