Here, via Political Strategy, is a fine piece by Jonathan Chait of The New Republic, called Why Academia Shuns Republicans. Here’s an excerpt. The full article requires registration. If you can’t be bothered, try this: Username remnant, password jeromehd.

The studies showing that academics prefer Democrats to Republicans also show that this preference holds in hard sciences as well as social sciences. Are we to believe that higher education has fallen prey to trendy multiculturalist engineering, or that physics departments everywhere suppress conservative quantum theorists?