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Totally off. As someone that was a humanities major at a private American college, I have to say that %99 of the faculty could fairly be described as very left-leaning, and this is basically the case in every university I've heard of. It's almost comical how left leaning academia is - to be publicly Republican professor would probably be something of a career liability outside of a select few Christian schools. At my school, College Republicans struggled to find a faculty sponsor, while the famous socialist Howard Zinn spoke to a rousing crowd full of professors. Any subject from Shakespeare to the Civil War could and would be analyzed through the lenses of class, race, gender, colonialism.

The exception, relevant to this thread, would probably be economics departments, but even then, I have the impression that there'd at least be a healthy majority of Keynsians that would strongly object to austerity and support a lot of government interventions. So even there, I think "pro-market and right-wing" would be a stretch.




>> healthy majority of Keynesians

I don't disagree with the general text of your post, but this is really, really school dependent. I would actually bet it's easier to find non-Keynesian professors.

Kenynesian theory is also a pretty "pro-market" approach when compared to some theories that exist outside the US. Government intervention is generally supposed to be limited to periods of recession.




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