Today NY Times Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman ponders An Academic Question.

It’s a fact, documented by two recent studies, that registered Republicans and self-proclaimed conservatives make up only a small minority of professors at elite universities. But what should we conclude from that?… One answer is self-selection – the same sort of self-selection that leads Republicans to outnumber Democrats four to one in the military.

Maybe this ties into Red Brains vs. Blue Brains?

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