The liberal tilt of academia (and of journalism, commentary, and intellectual life) is in some ways natural.54 Intellectual inquiry is bound to challenge the status quo, which is never perfect. And verbally articulated propositions, intellectuals’ stock in trade, are more congenial to the deliberate policies typically favored by liberals than to the diffuse forms of social organization such as markets and traditional norms typically favored by conservatives.
I don't agree with this. Academia should use reason more than anybody else.
