While discrimination and hatred based on ethnic and sexual categories is now frowned upon in our universities, intolerance towards conservatives and the suppression of conservative political thought is considered normal behavior. University faculties have become almost monolithically liberal. A recent survey of college campuses revealed that the top universities Dartmouth and Cornell employed 25 Democratic professors for every one Republican professor.
Law schools have even more lop-sided faculty ratios.
Robert Bork, President Reagan's failed Supreme Court nominee who was kept off the court for ideological reasons, was for years the only conservative on the faculty at Yale Law School. After much pressure, a second conservative was finally accepted to the faculty. It is unclear why the make-up of university faculties is almost exclusively liberal. Even some of the most politically-charged fields in the humanities attract as many conservative applicants as they do liberals, so it is not for a lack of trying. When Peter Berkowitz was denied tenure last year at Harvard's Department of Government by Harvard President Neil Rudenstine, against the recommendations of Berkowitz's government department colleagues, everyone suspected it was because of his conservative reputation.