Villanova Professor Robert Maranto, a self-described “centrist,” gives testimony of having in his years in academe been considered “on the fringe,” because he is a Republican.

Among similar examples, Maranto notes that the decision on the part of one of his colleagues to register as a Republican “caused ‘a sensation’ at his university. ‘It was as if I had become a child molester,’ he said. He eventually quit academia to join a think tank because ‘you don’t want to be in a department where everyone hates your guts.’”

Such a firewall is leftist bias, Maranto says, that “a student could probably go through four years without ever encountering a right-of-center view portrayed in a positive light.” (The Washington Post)