The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

by Jonathan Haidt

That wave of scholars included many Republicans and many conservatives. The Politics of Professors FIGURE 5.1. How professors described their own politics. The left-right ratio has increased rapidly since the mid-1990s. (Source: Higher Education Research Institute.43 Data is from nationally representative surveys of professors in the United States. Graphed by Sam Abrams.)

Professorship became incredibly lopsided when WWII vets began to retire in the 90s