It's difficult to get a job and people stay in school longer because they're employed as teaching assistants or instructors by their schools, by their schools where they're graduate students, and that does become exploitative eventually because they're very cheap labor and there's a way in which in it's not in the institution's interest to give them a degree if they can continue to employ them, I don't think anybody thinks that way, but effectively that's the way the system is starting to work.
Louis MenandIt's generally sort of sociologically observed that the better educated people are, the more liberal they tend to be, which would suggest that professors are going to be more liberal than the general public.
Louis MenandIt's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.
Louis MenandOne of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.
Louis MenandI don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.
Louis Menand