Quote: Jim Jackson said:Professors historically tend to be liberal. Again, this is nothing new.
Actually, I believe it didn't start to this point until the 1960s, when many people stayed in academia to avoid the draft.
I'm sorry, but that's wrong.
Many professors were harrassed during the 1950s under the McCarthy ideology and Red Scare that ran rampant and paranoid in the United States. Edward Tolman, psychologist at California, was terminated for refusing to sign a Loyalty Oath. He was later reinstated.
James J. Gibson, psychologist at Cornell, after the war, lost much of the military funding he enjoyed during his service in World War II because he supported the Teachers' Union and because he was a Liberal.
