The Secret Lives of Right-Wing Professors: A Conversation with Joshua Dunn

This next edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with Joshua Dunn on a new book that he has co-authored with Jon Shields entitled Passing on the Right. Dunn and Shields interviewed 153 professors across a range of disciplines who consider themselves conservatives and libertarians. Their findings paint a more moderate position on conservative academics.  Are they the victims of a systematic campaign of exclusion and persecution? That evidence doesn't seem to exist. However, many interviewees report self-censoring their comments and publications in various ways in order to receive tenure or other opportunities. But Dunn also reports that conservatives in the academy have found ways to get hired, obtain tenure, and succeed.