Andrew Sullivan’s round-up of examples of academic bias are quite amusing, if not a bit disturbing. It reminds of a first-year student who came up to me after class to tell me she was surprised to learn she had a right-wing professor. After all, she’d never had one before, and was assured Case’s faculty was left of center. I left wondering whether she was afraid of me, or found me to be a curiosity, like some exotic animal at the zoo. (What’s that strange creature? Why, that is an extremely rare species of academic, a conservative!)