A sure sign that opponents of the academic freedom movement are getting desperate is when they cease trying to dispute the central issue—that higher education has been corrupted by sectarian ideologies and partisan politics—in order to make political hay of technicalities.

Case in point is the American Federation of Teachers. On January 22, the powerful teacher’s union released a study titled “The ‘Faculty Bias’ Studies: Science or Propaganda?” Purporting to debunk eight studies documenting the dominance of left-liberal political views in academia and the concomitant exclusion of conservative perspectives, the study’s central claim is that the authors of these earlier studies are guilty of substituting their personal politics for methodological rigor. Propaganda, not scientific analysis, is their main pursuit.  Full Article