Mary Eberstadt in the Weekly Standard:

Every once in a while, something you read is so otherwise inexplicable that satire seems the safest bet. Take my accidental encounter last week with a recently released paper, commissioned for reasons inscrutable by the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, called “The ‘Faculty Bias’ Studies: Science or Propaganda?” Perhaps the most unintentionally entertaining report to issue from social science in many a sabbatical, this document argues in all apparent seriousness for what may be the most counter-intuitive ruling since the O.J. Simpson verdict. Several studies documenting left-wing bias among college professors, the AFT paper claims, are so methodologically flawed that “none gives readers the confidence in the conclusions that a well-designed study should provide”–those conclusions being, of course, that there is a pervasive political bias among the faculty on many American campuses, and that the bias in question overwhelmingly tacks port. I say “apparent seriousness” becauses so perverse is this report in conception and so quixotically oblivious to the inescapable facts, that it might easily be mistaken for a sendup. And so two-thirds of the way through a first scanning of its summary I concluded that some Swiftian wit had pulled off a brilliancy here. How else to explain a finding like, “It is not possible with any precision to calculate a ratio of Democrats to Republicans at the sampled institutions”? Or the closing admonition, addressed to critics of liberal-left bias on campus, that “passing off personal opinions as facts is not science”?

To read the actual report, if you must, go here.