That has been a hot topic lately.

In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, seven professors who are not leftists comment on the thesis that the job of being a professor just doesn’t jibe with the vision conservatives and libertarians have of themselves.

I find the Gross and Fosse thesis unpersuasive. There are probably just as many conservatives and libertarians who like teaching, research, and writing as there are leftists, but many of them choose to pursue that work outside of the largely hostile environment of academia.