‘Academic nirvana’: Yale now has zero GOP-donating faculty members

There’s no secret to the fact universities across America have turned wildly left. Many conservative speakers are not allowed. Conservatives are routinely attacked. Professors even have been known to assault conservative student displays, like pro-life posters.

Now Yale University has achieved what in-demand commentator and constitutional expert Jonathan Turley has labeled “academic nirvana.”

That, he said, would be “a state of perfect peace and enlightenment.”

And that was based on “a recent study found that the faculty had finally purged every Republican donor from its ranks. While 98 percent of the political donations went to Democrats, not a single professor could be found who gave to a single Republican candidate. The complete lock for Democrats is in a country that is split evenly between Republicans and Democrats.”

He said the Yale Daily News looked at some 7,000 Federal Election Commission filings that listed Yale as the employer.

Of 1,099 filings that included ‘professor’ in their occupation, 97.6 percent of the donations went to Democrats, while the remaining 2.4 percent went to independent candidates or groups,” the publication confirmed.

Such a “radical imbalance is a reflection of the lack of diversity at the school. It is not a perfect point of comparison.”

Turley confirmed there could be a conservative without a donation record.

“Moreover, those of us who have criticized the lack of diversity have not argued for partisan criteria. Rather, these are metrics that help show the lack of diversity. Many scholars prefer to dismiss these criticisms as speculative or unproven. However, the problem has long been obvious and these studies reinforce what critics have said for years.”

Admitting or boasting, whichever, teacher Carlos Eire of Yale said, “It’s true, there is very, very, very little intellectual diversity at Yale and at most institutions of higher learning when it comes to politics. Academics in the US, Canada and Europe have been leaning left for the past three or four generations. And this is something that shows no signs of being corrected or correcting itself anytime soon.”

He related his own experience, confirming the bias:

I was at a dinner not long ago with a Harvard Law Professor who told me and others that he could not be expected to vote for a faculty candidate with whom he disagreed. Two of us objected that we do that all the time to reinforce intellectual diversity. He was entirely unapologetic and unyielding that he would not vote for faculty candidates who embrace conservative views of the Constitution that he considers wrong.

He explained, “As I discuss in my book ‘The Indispensable Right,’ Harvard is not just an academic echo chamber. It is a virtual academic sensory deprivation tank. In a country with a majority of conservative and libertarian voters, fewer than 9 percent of the Harvard student body and less than 3 percent of the faculty members identify as conservative.”