The very nature of a university is antithetical to conservative thinking. By definition a conservative is resistant to change. Inquiry by its very nature is about questioning and exploring new ways of thinking. It seeks to understand how things are rather than how things fit into the existing model of thought.

Academic careers are made by making new discoveries and seeing things in a new and different light. Those aren't among the charms of conservatism.

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." John Stuart Mill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.